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3 Heller - William V
| Issuer | Henneberg-Schleusingen, County of |
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| Year | 1530-1537 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two heraldic shields displayed side by side within a notched or incuse field: the dexter shield bears a crowned double-headed imperial eagle over a quartered or nested ground, while the sinister shield depicts a hen facing left, the traditional Henneberg emblem. Above the shields, the initial H — standing for Henneberg — is flanked by two large rosettes; below, the mintmaster's mark W appears between two small rosettes. The design is characteristic of the crude hammered style of early sixteenth-century German minor coinage, with devices occupying nearly the entire flan. |
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| Mintage | 1530 - - ND (1530-1537) - - 1531 - - 1532 - - 1533 - - 1534 - - 1535 - - 1536 - - 1537 - - |
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Henneberg-Schleusingen occupied a precarious position in the fractured politics of Thuringia during the 1530s, with Count William V navigating the pressures of the Reformation while managing a county whose silver resources were modest at best. The extreme lightness of this denomination — barely half a gram — reflects not debasement but the genuine lower limit of what contemporary minting technology could strike with any consistency in silver.