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1 Heller - Frederick August
| Issuer | Jever, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1764 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | D.G.F.A.P.A.D.S.A.&W.C.A.D.S.B.I.&K. |
| Reverse description | The crowned coat of arms of Jever occupies the central field, flanked on either side by the date numerals 17 and 64. The inscription IEVER appears at the top of the coin at twelve o'clock above the shield, while the denomination 1 HELLER is inscribed at the base of the coin at six o'clock. The entire design is contained within a beaded border consistent with the obverse, forming a well-composed heraldic composition characteristic of small copper issues from German lordships of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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Jever's 1764 copper heller was struck under Fräulein Maria (Friederike Auguste Sophie), whose formal title gave rise to the "Frederick August" designation on the coin — a Germanized rendering applied to distinguish her issues. Jever was at this point a tiny autonomous lordship on the North Sea coast, theoretically under Anhalt-Zerbst jurisdiction through inheritance, but administered with considerable independence. The territory would pass to Catherine the Great of Russia just three years later, in 1793 making Jever briefly a Russian imperial possession — one of the more peculiar footnotes in German territorial history.