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2 Goldgulden
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1790 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1790: ND (1790) |
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Basel struck this double goldgulden in 1790 as the city-republic's political independence was quietly eroding — within eight years, French Revolutionary forces would dissolve the canton's civic autonomy entirely and fold it into the Helvetic Republic. Issues from this final decade of Basel's existence as a sovereign minting authority are scarce precisely because the city had little economic incentive to produce large gold coinages; most gold circulating locally was foreign.
HMZ 2#93b distinguishes this as a specific die variant within the type. The 1790 date places it among the last gold emissions before the mint fell silent under French reorganization in 1798.