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1 Sol
| Issuer | Canton of Geneva |
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| Year | 1817 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination UN SOL displayed in two lines within an ornate cartouche decorated with foliate scrollwork, surmounted by a small floral rosette, with the mintmaster's mark H at the base of the cartouche. The circumferential legend POST TENEBRAS LUX encircles the design, with the date 1817 in the lower exergual area, all within an outer reeded border. |
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Geneva's cantonal coinage authority had a narrow window after the city-state's 1815 admission to the Swiss Confederation — federal monetary unification was already a political inevitability, and cantons scrambled to issue their own types before Bern consolidated control. The 1817 billon sol sits near the tail end of Geneva's independent minting activity. The billon composition itself reflects chronic silver shortages that plagued Swiss cantons through the Napoleonic aftermath, when metal stocks had been systematically drained by French requisitions.
The KM#116 and 116a distinction traces to minor die differences documented by Hürlimann.