10 Kreuzer

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.