1 Heller Judenpfennig

Frankfurt's Jewish community was subject to a separate toll — the Judenzoll — levied on Jews entering or transiting the city, a fiscal arrangement with medieval roots that persisted embarrassingly late into the nineteenth century. These copper tokens were issued specifically to facilitate collection of that tax, functioning as receipts or passage markers rather than general currency. The abolition of Frankfurt's Jewish body tax came in 1813 under Napoleonic pressure, but municipal practice lagged legislation considerably.

By 1820, issuance of this type was largely anachronistic — a bureaucratic remnant outlasting its own legal basis.