1 Heller

Augsburg's heller coinage of the mid-eighteenth century occupied the lowest rung of the city's monetary system, struck in quantities that suggest more administrative obligation than economic necessity. By 1756 the Free City was already in economic decline relative to the rising mercantile powers of northern Germany, and small copper issues like this one circulated primarily in local market transactions where fractional values still mattered. At 0.35 g, the dies had to be precisely managed to maintain any consistency — and they frequently weren't, making die-matched pairs across the Forst/Schm 593 type genuinely difficult to establish.