Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/2 Dicken Saint Maurice, date on obverse
| Issuer | City of Lucerne |
|---|---|
| Year | 1623 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Facing bust of Saint Maurice, patron saint of Lucerne, shown with a nimbus (halo) and wearing a visored helmet and full plate armour bearing a large cross on the breastplate. The saint holds an upright sword in his raised right hand, presented in a hieratic, devotional style characteristic of early seventeenth-century Swiss municipal coinage. The circular legend surrounds the figure. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | SANCTVS ❀ MAVRITIVS ❀ PATRON ❀ (Translation: Sanctus Mauritius Patrons. Patron Saint Maurice.) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |