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1 Heller - William IX
| Issuer | Hanau-Münzenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1768-1773 |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a purely typographic design in the German Scheidemünze tradition. The numeral I appears at the top centre of the field, flanked by two decorative lozenge-shaped ornaments. Below, in four bold lines filling the field, the inscription reads HELLER / SCHEIDE / MUNTZ followed by the date on the lowest line. The plain, unadorned lettering in a serif style is characteristic of small-denomination copper coinage of the Holy Roman Empire in the late eighteenth century. |
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William IX inherited Hanau-Münzenberg in 1760 at age nine, with administration handled by regents until he came of age. These small copper hellers were among the last coins struck under the Hanau-Münzenberg name — when William later inherited Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1775, the two counties merged and the separate Münzenberg coinage ceased entirely. He would go on to become Elector Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel, notorious for lending Hessian troops to the British during the American Revolutionary War and profiting handsomely from the arrangement.