1 Heller - Frederick August

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.