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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1741 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | BASILEA 1741 |
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Basel's half thaler coinage of this period occupied an awkward political position — the city-republic maintained its own mint and monetary identity well into the eighteenth century despite enormous pressure from surrounding territorial powers. The 1741 issue falls within a stretch of relatively stable Swiss cantonal silver production, before the disruptions of the French Revolutionary Wars dismantled most of the old Confederation's minting arrangements entirely. HMZ 2#100g places this squarely within a documented die sequence for the type, useful for attribution when examples show late-die fatigue around the inner fields.