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1/4 Guilder 'Viertel Guter Gulden'
| Issuer | City of Lucerne |
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| Year | 1744 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1675-1746) |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Lucerne — a vertically divided pale argent and azure shield bearing a harp — displayed on an ornately scrolled baroque cartouche adorned with floral garland elements. The shield is centered in the field and framed by elaborate foliate scrollwork. The peripheral legend reads clockwise in Latin, separated by a small floral ornament, and runs along the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Lucerne struck its own coinage under rights derived from its status as a free imperial city within the Swiss Confederation, a privilege that became increasingly awkward as the Confederation's internal monetary chaos deepened through the eighteenth century. The proliferation of cantonal issues — each with subtly different standards — was precisely the problem the Helvetic monetary reformers would later try to solve, though they largely failed until the federal coinage act of 1850 finally imposed uniformity.
The "Guter Gulden" denomination traces to the south German gulden standard rather than the French monetary system, reflecting Lucerne's commercial orientation toward the Rhine trade routes.