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1½ Ducats / Pistole

Issuer Canton of Zug
Year 1692
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Obverse script Latin
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Zug was among the smallest and least wealthy of the Swiss cantons, which makes a gold issue of this size — a denomination pitched between the standard ducat and the full pistole — an unusual fiscal gesture for 1692. The canton's mint activity was sporadic and driven largely by ceremonial or diplomatic necessity rather than commercial demand, and surviving examples across all references are few enough that die marriages have never been fully reconciled in the literature.

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