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1/2 Kreutzer
| Issuer | City of Fribourg |
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| Year | 1736-1751 |
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| Diameter | 15 mm |
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| Obverse description | Crowned baroque shield of Fribourg arms centered in the field, enclosed within a plain inner circle. The civic arms appear on the shield with a decorative mantle surmounted by a stylized crown. The circumferential Latin legend MONETA·REIPUB·FRIBURGENSIS runs between the inner circle and the milled outer border, identifying the coin as a monetary issue of the Republic of Fribourg. |
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| Mintage | 1736 - Narrow Shield - 1736 - Wide Shield - 1737 - - 1738 - - 1739 - - 1740 - Narrow Shield - 1740 - Wide Shield - 1741 - - 1742 - - 1744 - - 1751 - - |
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Fribourg's half kreutzer issues of this period reflect the city's stubborn retention of small billon coinage long after neighboring Swiss cantons had largely abandoned such fractional pieces as impractical. The canton's bilingual character — French-speaking majority, German-speaking minority — complicated monetary administration throughout the eighteenth century, with local civic coinage filling gaps left by the inconsistent penetration of larger regional currencies into daily market transactions.
The HMZ reference places this firmly within the documented Fribourg civic series, though die variety documentation for this denomination remains sparse in the literature.