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Heller
| Issuer | Krosno, City of |
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| Year | 1430-1476 |
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| Currency | Groschen |
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| Obverse description | The Silesian eagle displayed in the field, shown facing with head turned to the left. The eagle's wings are spread and the body is rendered in a stylised, archaic manner characteristic of medieval Silesian civic coinage. Fine feather detailing is visible on the wings and breast despite the small module of the flan. No surrounding legend; the design occupies the full irregular flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (1430-1476) |
| Additional information |
Krosno, a royal city in Lesser Poland, held minting rights intermittently during the fifteenth century as part of the broader Polish crown's pragmatic delegation of small-denomination coinage production to regional centers. The heller denomination itself was borrowed from the German monetary tradition — originating in Schwäbisch Hall — and circulated across Central European trade routes where fractional silver was chronically short.
The nearly five-decade attribution window reflects genuine uncertainty in the numismatic literature rather than extended production; precise dating of Polish civic hellers from this period remains difficult without documentary corroboration.