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Bracteate Heller
| Issuer | City of Münsterberg (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1443-1452 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1443-1452) |
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Münsterberg held minting rights as a ducal town under the Piast line of Silesian princes, but by the mid-fifteenth century the city itself was exercising those rights with increasing autonomy as ducal authority fragmented across the region's competing inheritances. The bracteate heller — struck on a single thin flan from one die — was the workhorse of local petty commerce, changing hands for bread and firewood rather than tax payments or trade settlement.
The nine-year span of this issue likely reflects the tenure of a specific municipal minting arrangement rather than a continuous die run.