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1 Heller - Louis II
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1847 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | I HELLER 1847 |
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By 1847, Hesse-Darmstadt was under mounting fiscal and political pressure that would boil over in the revolutions of 1848. Ludwig II had already granted a constitution in 1820 under duress, and the minor copper coinage of his final years circulated through a grand duchy whose population was increasingly restless. The heller, the smallest denomination in circulation, passed through hands that within a year would be building barricades in Darmstadt.