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Among the 15th c., usually anonymous Silesian hellers, the ones most interesting are those from the municipal mint in Legnica. In the collection of the Numismatic Department of The National Ossoliński Institute in Wrocław, we hold 37 such coins that can be divided into two main groups. The obverse of the first group, older (struck after 1425), shows the bust of St Peter, turned three-quarters right, with his right hand pointing at the key he holds in his left hand which is sometimes wrapped with a veil and that separates the sacred (the key) from the profane (the hand). The reverse features the Silesian eagle with its head turned right (in heraldic terms), with a concave band across the wings and breast and with a pellet at the centre of the breast, which represents the middle of the die. The second, younger group (struck after 1475), is characterised by the presentation of two crossed keys on the obverse. The reverse remains practically unchanged, when compared to the first group, only the centric dot disappears from the Eagle’s breast. In the Ossolineum collection we identified 22 coins with St Peter, so-called Petershellers. Three of these coins turned out to be counterfeit (nos. 35–37). The second group is represented by 15 specimens. We adjusted all the coins to the new, as yet unpublished, typology of Silesian hellers created by Borys Paszkiewicz. It is worth emphasising, however, that in the Ossolineum collection we registered one variant of a heller with crossed keys that was not registered by Borys Paszkiewicz. It is a variant with an additional dot near the tip of the right key (no. 26). Paying attention to this common coin used mainly for small transactions, we not only obtained a new variant of this coin, but also expanded the source base of the metric data of these hellers and presented the history of the 15th c. Legnica mint.