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2 Thalers
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1741 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#150, HMZ 2#98d, Dav EC III#1749 |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINE • CONSERVA • NOS • IN • PACE |
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| Mintage | 1741 |
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Basel struck this double thaler in 1741 as a presentation or commemorative piece rather than circulating currency — the weight and diameter made it impractical for trade use, and surviving examples almost universally show minimal wear consistent with cabinet storage. The city-republic maintained its own coinage rights as a free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire, a privilege jealously defended through the eighteenth century even as neighboring Swiss cantons and German territories increasingly deferred to larger monetary authorities.
The Davenport EC III reference places it within the broader corpus of German-speaking large silver issues, though Basel's civic issues from this period are notably scarcer than contemporary cantonal output from Bern or Zurich.