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2 Kreutzers
| Issuer | City of St. Gallen |
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| Year | 1720 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1714-1798) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ᛭ SOLI ᛭ DEO · GLORIA × 1720 × A |
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St. Gallen's municipal coinage occupied an awkward jurisdictional space throughout the eighteenth century — the city and the powerful Benedictine abbey of the same name were legally distinct entities, each with separate coining rights, and the two frequently clashed over monetary prerogatives. This 2 Kreutzer belongs to the city's independent issues, not the abbey's, a distinction that catalog references sometimes blur.
Billon coinage of this period suffered chronic debasement pressures across the Swiss cantons, with the Helvetic monetary system fragmented into dozens of local standards that made small-denomination exchange genuinely difficult across cantonal borders.