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1/2 Dicken Gold strike of ducat
| Issuer | City of Lucerne |
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| Year | 1621-1622 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1550-1656) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | SANCTVS • MAVRITIVS ✶ PATRON (Translation: Sanctus Mauritius Patrons. Patron Saint Maurice.) |
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The early 1620s were catastrophic for Swiss monetary stability. The Kipper und Wipperzeit — the great debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire and its neighbors — flooded markets with underweight, clipped, and alloyed small silver coinage, collapsing public confidence in circulating money. Lucerne's response was conservative and deliberate: restrike fractional silver types in gold as pattern-grade pieces, likely for presentation to civic officials or allied cantons rather than any circulation purpose.
The ducat-weight gold strike of the half Dicken sits at the intersection of monetary politics and civic pride during one of the worst currency crises early modern Europe had yet seen.