8 Hellers - Maximilien-Henri de Bavière

Maximilien-Henri de Bavière was appointed Archbishop-Elector of Cologne in 1650 largely through Wittelsbsach dynastic pressure, a pattern of nepotistic succession that had kept the electorate within that family's orbit for over a century. His tenure coincided with the slow monetary normalization following the Thirty Years' War, during which debased small coinage had flooded the Rhineland. An 8 Heller piece in silver at this weight sits at the awkward boundary where the nominal value of the metal barely justified the cost of minting.