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1/2 Kreutzer
| Issuer | City of Bern |
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| Year | 1732 |
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| Value | 1/2 Kreuzer (1⁄320) |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Bern displayed within an oval cartouche featuring ornate scrollwork at the base, depicting the city's heraldic bear passant to the left, crowned, on a diagonal-banded shield. The circular legend MONETA·BERNENSIS runs around the periphery in Latin capital letters, with the inscription divided across the upper and lower fields of the coin. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bern's small billon issues of the early eighteenth century reflect the persistent fractional coinage problem common to Swiss city-states: chronic shortages of low-denomination specie forced repeated small-scale mintings, often at a loss to the issuing authority. By 1732, Bern had long operated as the dominant power in the western Swiss Confederation, and its municipal coinage circulated well beyond the city's own territory. The HMZ 2#2-226f designation places this piece within a well-documented sequence, though individual die varieties within the type remain imprecisely catalogued.