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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1741 |
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| Weight | 13 g |
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| Obverse lettering | *DOMINE·CONSERVA·NOS·IN·PACE |
| Reverse description | A detailed panoramic view of the city of Basel is depicted in the central field, showing the Rhine River in the foreground with boats, a bridge, and the distinctive skyline of the city with church spires and civic buildings rendered in fine engraving. Above the cityscape, the legend BASILEA arches across the upper field, flanked on either side by a semicircular arrangement of eight heraldic shields representing associated guilds or allied cantons. The date 1741 appears in the lower exergue, framed by decorative floral and scroll ornaments. |
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Basel's half thalers of this period were struck under the authority of the city council at a time when the Swiss Confederation had no unified coinage system — each canton and imperial city maintained its own monetary standards, often to the frustration of merchants navigating exchange rates across a few hours of travel. The HMZ reference places this among a small run of dated issues from the 1740s, a decade when Basel's mint output was modest and interruptions frequent.
The specific HMZ 2-100f designation distinguishes it from closely related die pairings within the same type series.