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Heller
| Issuer | Aachen, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1420 |
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| Currency | Schilling (1373-1504) |
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| Reverse lettering | M N A Q (Translation: New coinage of Aachen.) |
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| Mint | Aachen Mint |
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Aachen's status as a Free Imperial City made it one of the few municipalities with the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege jealously guarded and periodically contested by neighboring territorial lords throughout the fifteenth century. The heller denomination itself originated in Schwäbisch Hall, spreading across the Holy Roman Empire as a low-value unit so ubiquitous that counterfeiting it was endemic — a persistent problem that drove repeated imperial edicts on fineness standards. By 1420, Aachen's issues were circulating well beyond municipal boundaries into the Rhineland trade networks.