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1 Heller - Eberhard V
| Issuer | Württemberg, County of |
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| Year | 1478-1480 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | A hunting horn rendered in relief, its curved body oriented horizontally across the lower field, with the bell mouth open to the right and a mouthpiece curl to the left. A beaded chain or pellet string issues from the instrument and forms a loop above it, with multiple pellets arranged in a triangular or arc-shaped cluster filling the interior of the loop. No legend or inscription is present; the design is entirely emblematic, occupying a plain, unbordered field on this small, irregularly struck hammered flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Eberhard V — later Eberhard im Bart, the first Duke of Württemberg — issued this heller during a period when he was actively consolidating the fractured county after decades of partition between the Württemberg-Stuttgart and Württemberg-Urach lines. The 1473 Münsinger Vertrag had reunified the territory just five years before this coin was struck, and small silver fractions like this heller were essential to lubricating the local economies his administration was knitting back together.
At 0.19 g, surviving examples were subject to extraordinary attrition. The Ebner reference corpus for this type is thin.