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10 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Republic of Solothurn |
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| Year | 1760 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays an ornate interlaced cipher, likely the letters S and O for Solothurn, arranged as a decorative monogram on a cross-like cruciform device, flanked by symmetrical palm or laurel branches curling outward in Baroque fashion. A civic crown surmounts the monogram at the top. The date 1760 appears vertically in the field, and the denomination CR · 10 is inscribed in the lower exergue area. The circular Latin legend CUNCTA PER DEUM runs along the periphery within a toothed border. |
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Solothurn's silver coinage of the mid-eighteenth century was produced under the authority of a patrician oligarchy that kept remarkably tight control over its mint operations — the city-republic struck coins in relatively small quantities, tightly tied to local commercial needs rather than regional monetary ambitions. The 1760 date places this piece squarely in a period when Swiss cantonal authorities were navigating the creeping influence of French monetary standards, particularly the livre tournois, which had begun displacing traditional kreuzer-based reckoning in border trade.