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Heller
| Issuer | Oppeln, City of |
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| Year | 1450 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | As a bracteate-style coin, the reverse presents a flat, featureless surface with faint mirror-image impressions bleeding through from the obverse strike. The surface shows natural oxidation and wear consistent with circulation, with no intentional design or legend on this side. |
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Oppeln, a Silesian ducal town under Piast succession during the mid-fifteenth century, issued municipal bracteate-style small silver denominations as the duchy fragmented among competing hereditary claims. The Heller was a German penny denomination that had spread eastward from its Swabian origins at Schwäbisch Hall, and by the mid-1400s was being struck by numerous Silesian municipalities exercising minting rights delegated — or simply assumed — during periods of ducal weakness.
Kop. 8681 places this issue within Kopicki's exhaustive Polish and Silesian corpus, though documentation on specific Oppeln municipal emissions of this period remains sparse even in specialist literature.