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1 Duplone
| Issuer | City of Solothurn |
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| Year | 1796-1798 |
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| Value | 1 Duplone (4) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Saint Ursus, patron martyr of Solothurn, depicted standing facing, clad in full plate armour with a cross on the breastplate and a nimbus above the helmeted head. He holds in his left hand a long banner-staff bearing a pennant, while a sword is held diagonally across his body in his right hand. The saint stands on a narrow ground line, with the mint date 1797 placed in the exergue below. The circumferential legend S·URSUS MARTYR flanks the figure to left and right in bold Roman capitals. |
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Solothurn's duplone issues of the late 1790s were struck in the final years of the Old Swiss Confederacy, just before French Revolutionary forces swept through the region in 1798 and the Helvetic Republic dissolved the cantonal minting privileges that had existed for centuries. The city's output in this window was characteristically small — Solothurn was among the more conservative cantonal mints in terms of volume, and gold issues were produced in limited quantities for commercial and diplomatic use rather than general circulation.
The three-year window closed abruptly when Berne fell to Schauenbourg's army in March 1798.