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1/2 Schilling
| Issuer | City of Lucerne |
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| Year | 1490 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of Saint Leodegar (Leodegarius), patron saint of Lucerne, depicted in episcopal vestments including mitre and cope, holding a pastoral staff or crozier in one hand and an auger — his traditional martyrdom attribute — in the other. The figure occupies the central field in a static, hieratic style consistent with late medieval Swiss ecclesiastical coinage. A beaded inner border encircles the design. The surrounding legend SANC LEODE, an abbreviation for Sanctus Leodegarius, is rendered in Gothic uncial script. |
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| Mintage | ND (1490) - Wielandt# 24 - ND (1490) - Wielandt# 24a - ND (1490) - Wielandt# 24b - |
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Lucerne's half schilling issues of the late fifteenth century were produced under the municipal mint authority at a moment when the Swiss Confederation was consolidating its political identity following the Burgundian Wars. Charles the Bold's defeat and death at Nancy in 1477 had dissolved the dominant regional power, leaving Swiss cities to assert their own monetary prerogatives with unusual confidence. The Haas unlisted status suggests this specific die marriage or emission remains outside the standard cantonal reference — not uncommon for minor fractional silver of this period, where production was episodic and survival rates are poor.