3 Heller - Marquard Sebastian Schenk of Stauffenberg

Schenk von Stauffenberg governed Bamberg during a period of grinding fiscal pressure, with the bishopric still recovering from the devastations of the Thirty Years' War decades prior. Small billon heller issues like this one were struck largely to address chronic shortages of petty coinage in the local economy — imperial and regional mints alike struggled to keep low-denomination circulation supplied. The Bamberg mint's output under Schenk was modest, and KM#70 pieces that have survived without heavy porosity are harder to locate than their apparent obscurity might suggest.