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| Issuer | Zug |
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| Year | 1701-1745 |
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| Diameter | 12 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central Spanish-style heraldic shield featuring a horizontal bar with a dot at its center, enclosed within a beaded or linear circle. A Latin legend encircles the shield, reading DAT · ET · DABITVR · VOBIS, the whole composition rendered in the low-relief style characteristic of small billon coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Zug was among the smallest and least populous of the Swiss cantons, and its monetary output across the early eighteenth century reflects that scale — issues were struck in modest quantities to serve purely local exchange needs. The billon composition here sits at the lowest practical threshold for coined metal, a denomination so fractional it would have passed hands primarily in market transactions where smaller reckoning was unavoidable.
HMZ classification places this within a well-documented Zug series, but individual die varieties within the run remain poorly studied compared to output from the larger cantons.