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1 Heller - Frederick

Issuer Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Year 1749-1758
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Weight 0.60 g
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Obverse script Latin (cursive)
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Edge Plain
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Brandenburg-Bayreuth was one of the smaller Hohenzollern-administered territories, governed through this period by Frederick, the "Wild Margrave" — notorious for his theatrical eccentricities and costly court entertainments that routinely strained the margraviate's finances. The copper heller was the lowest practical denomination in circulation, and issues of this type were minted in bulk to address chronic small-change shortages common across fragmented German states in the mid-eighteenth century.

The KM#205 / Wilm#784 attribution places this firmly within a nine-year emission window, and individual year-dated examples within that span remain differentiable to collectors working the Wilmersdörfer reference.

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