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2 Thalers
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1741 |
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| Value | 2 Thalers |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the Basel basilisk — the city's heraldic dragon-serpent — depicted in high relief facing left, its scaled body and spread wings rendered with fine engraved detail. The creature stands upon a decorative cartouche bearing the Basel city arms (a diagonal black bend on white), framed by ornate scrollwork. The circumference is bordered by an inner dentilated ring and an outer reeded rim, with the Latin religious legend arranged around the full periphery separated by bullet stops. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINE • CONSERVA • NOS • IN • PACE |
| Reverse description | A finely engraved panoramic cityscape of Basel stretches across the central field, showing the city's skyline with the distinctive spire of Basel Minster at left, the Rhine bridge, and numerous church steeples and civic buildings rendered in meticulous detail, with a rocky foreground and a small boat on the river below. Above the cityscape, a baroque cartouche displays the word BASILEA flanked by an ornate arrangement of allied cantonal shields. In the lower exergue, the date 1741 is flanked by the mintmaster's initials HM, all enclosed within a decorative frame adorned with foliate and floral scrollwork. The coin is bordered by a dentilated inner ring and a reeded outer rim. |
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