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1 Heller Gold pattern strike
| Issuer | Augsburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1749 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 17 49 |
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Augsburg's civic mint produced occasional gold Probeprägungen of base-metal denominations as presentation pieces, typically commissioned by the city council for distribution to dignitaries or as cabinet curiosities for wealthy collectors. The Heller was the lowest unit in circulation — struck in copper for everyday commerce — which made a gold restrike of it a deliberate paradox, the least valuable coin rendered in the most precious metal.
Forster's documentation of this piece places it firmly within a small sequence of mid-18th century Augsburg pattern activity. Survivors are extremely few.