15¾ Heller

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.