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1/2 Batzen 'Doppler' Square shield
| Issuer | City of Lucerne |
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| Year | 1501-1507 |
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| Reference(s) | Wielandt Luzern#12, HMZ 2#622a, Haas L#400 |
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| Reverse description | A frontal bust of Saint Leodegar (Leodegarius), patron saint of Lucerne, is depicted nimbed and vested in episcopal regalia. He wears an embroidered mitre and holds the hand drill — his attribute of martyrdom — in his right hand. The peripheral legend in Gothic script names the saint. The bust is rendered in the hieratic, frontal tradition common to late medieval Swiss ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12 g - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12a - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12b - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12c - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12d - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12e - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12f - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12h - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12i - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12j - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12k - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12l - ND (1501-1507) - Wielandt# 12m - ND (1502-1507) - Wielandt# 12 - |
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Lucerne's early sixteenth-century municipal coinage emerged from a city that had only recently consolidated its position within the Swiss Confederation, and the Doppler denomination — worth two Rappen — filled a specific gap in small daily commerce that silver coinage was too valuable to serve. The square shield design places this firmly within the regional Alemannic heraldic tradition, where civic pride in arms was as much a political statement as a decorative choice.
The Wielandt reference confirms this as one of the scarcer early Lucerne billon types, with HMZ 2-622a distinguishing it from later municipal issues by specific die characteristics.