2 Thalers

Zürich struck double thalers of this type during a period when the city was navigating the final, exhausting phase of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict in which the Swiss Confederacy formally secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire at the Peace of Westphalia just two years later, in 1648. Large-denomination silver issues like this one served the city's considerable mercantile and diplomatic needs, circulating among a merchant class that demanded coins of unimpeachable weight and purity.

The Wunderly reference draws a blank on this particular piece, suggesting it escaped that collection entirely — notable given how thoroughly Wunderly documented Zürich civic coinage.