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1 Heller - Louis I
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1821-1824 |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | G.H. K.M. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hesse-Darmstadt's copper small change of this period was struck under Ludwig I, who had elevated the territory to a Grand Duchy only in 1806 under Napoleon's reorganization of German states. The Heller was by the 1820s an almost archaic denomination — worth half a Pfennig — kept alive largely for rural markets where even fractional copper had real purchasing function.
The Darmstadt mint closed permanently in 1844, making all issues from this facility effectively terminal examples of a short-lived sovereign coinage.