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6 Sols
| Issuer | City of Geneva |
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| Year | 1624 |
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| Value | 6 Sols (1⁄16) |
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| Reverse lettering | · POST · TENEBRAS · LVX · G R |
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| Mint | Geneva Mint |
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| Additional information |
Geneva in the early seventeenth century operated as an independent Protestant republic, its monetary output shaped as much by theology and civic pride as by trade necessity. The city had expelled its prince-bishop decades earlier and minted in its own right, answerable to no external sovereign. Small silver fractions like this 6 Sols piece circulated alongside coinage from Savoy, Bern, and France in a market that was perpetually arguing over exchange rates.
The HMZ 1#2-323a attribution places this within a tightly documented Swiss cantonal sequence. Geneva's mint activity in the 1620s was intermittent rather than industrial.