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3 Heller - Conrad William of Wertnau
| Issuer | Bishopric of Würzburg |
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| Year | 1683 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unadorned reverse field with no design, inscription, or device. The flan exhibits typical hammered coinage surface texture consistent with small-denomination issues of the late seventeenth-century German states. |
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Conrad Wilhelm von Wernau served as Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1683 until his death later that same year — a reign of months, not years. This 3 Heller issue falls into that compressed window, making it among the briefest episcopal coinages the Bishopric produced in the seventeenth century. The Franconian heller denominations of this period were workhorses of small trade, struck in large numbers but surviving poorly due to the punishing daily use they absorbed in markets and toll collections.
Helmschrot 437 is the standard reference for Würzburg episcopal minor coinage of this period, though documented die varieties for this specific type remain underreported in auction literature.