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3 Heller - Albert Frederick and Philip Louis Possidierende Fürsten
| Issuer | Cleves |
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| Year | 1618 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displaying the combined arms of the Duchy of Cleves, surmounted by a princely crown, and enclosed within a wreath of laurel and floral branches. The shield is divided into four quarters, each bearing distinct dynastic charges including a lion rampant and barry fess elements, rendered in low relief in the hammered style typical of early seventeenth-century German coinage. No legend is present on this side. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1618 issue falls directly within the succession crisis that followed the death of Duke John William of Cleves in 1609, which left his territories — Cleves, Mark, Jülich, and Berg — without a clear heir and triggered a decade-long joint administration. Albert Frederick of Brandenburg and Philip Louis of Neuburg governed as "possessing princes" under an uneasy condominium arrangement, each pressing his dynastic claim while the region became a proxy fault line between Protestant and Catholic powers. The joint inscription was a political compromise, not a constitutional settlement.