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| Issuer | Canton of Lucerne |
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| Year | 1804 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lucerne struck its own copper coinage in the early 1800s as a cantonal authority, a practice that ended definitively with Swiss federal monetary unification in 1850. This piece predates that consolidation by nearly half a century, issued when Switzerland was still a loose confederation of sovereign cantons each managing their own monetary affairs — a situation the Act of Mediation of 1803, imposed by Napoleon, had only partially rationalized.