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1 Heller - John III of Henneberg
| Issuer | Abbey of Fulda |
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| Year | 1539-1540 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, presenting a flat, uniface field with no design, legend, or decorative element, consistent with the production of very small hammered Heller coinage of this period where only one die face received an impression. |
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Fulda's abbots held the right to strike coin by imperial grant stretching back to the early medieval period, but the early sixteenth century brought repeated jurisdictional friction between the abbey and the surrounding Henneberg counts over monetary authority in the region. Johann III von Henneberg served as Prince-Abbot from 1529 until his death in 1541, his tenure bracketed by the turbulence of Reformation politics that stripped several neighboring ecclesiastical mints of their striking privileges entirely. That Fulda retained its mint through this period owed more to imperial politics than to the abbey's own strength.