2 Goldgulden

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.