The 1804 Lucerne 10 Franken belongs to a short window of Swiss cantonal gold coinage that effectively ended with the Mediation Act of 1803, which restructured the Helvetic Republic into a loose confederation of cantons — each briefly reasserting independent monetary authority before federal standardization gradually erased it. Lucerne's issues from this moment are among the scarcest of any Swiss cantonal gold type, produced in quantities that modern census populations suggest were always small.
The HMZ reference 2-667a distinguishes this as the primary die variety within the type.
The 1804 Lucerne 10 Franken belongs to a short window of Swiss cantonal gold coinage that effectively ended with the Mediation Act of 1803, which restructured the Helvetic Republic into a loose confederation of cantons — each briefly reasserting independent monetary authority before federal standardization gradually erased it. Lucerne's issues from this moment are among the scarcest of any Swiss cantonal gold type, produced in quantities that modern census populations suggest were always small.
The HMZ reference 2-667a distinguishes this as the primary die variety within the type.