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20 Schillings
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1783-1798 |
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| Weight | 7.30 g |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA REIPVBLICÆ TVRICENSIS |
| Reverse description | The denomination and date are displayed in four lines of bold Roman lettering — XX / SCHIL / LING / 1792 — occupying the central field, enclosed within a finely rendered wreath of laurel tied with a ribbon bow at the top and a foliate knot at the base. The wreath branches extend symmetrically from lower center to upper center, framing the inscription in a neat oval. The field is plain and unadorned beyond the wreath, lending the design a clean, neoclassical character. |
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Zürich's late cantonal silver coinage was issued under the authority of the city council during a period of mounting political tension across the Swiss Confederacy — the same years that saw revolutionary pressure from France begin destabilizing the old patrician order. Production of this type effectively ended when French forces established the Helvetic Republic in 1798, abolishing cantonal monetary authority overnight and rendering the entire series obsolete by decree.