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15¾ Heller
| Issuer | Bocholt, City of |
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| Year | 1616 |
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| Value | 15¾ Heller (1⁄80) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Bocholt's fractional copper issues of the early seventeenth century were emergency municipal coinages, struck to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination specie that plagued Westphalian towns during the prolonged monetary disruptions of the period. The odd denomination — 15¾ Heller — reflects the city's attempt to peg local copper to a specific fractional value of the Reichsthaler, a calculation that varied by region and produced some of the most arithmetically peculiar denominations in German numismatics.