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Heller - Ville de Dortmund
| Issuer | City of Dortmund |
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| Year | 1555 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Dortmund's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised continuously through the sixteenth century. The heller denomination by this period was already archaic in much of the Empire — a fractional penny-weight relic kept alive in regional markets where small transactions still demanded the tiniest silver division. Dortmund's civic minting authority was formally contested more than once by neighboring territorial lords who coveted the income and prestige minting rights carried.
Bergh#144 is among the later-dated examples of this civic heller type before Dortmund's minting activity declined under increasing Imperial pressure.