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Batzen
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1533-1535 |
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| Currency | Dicken (1499-1535) |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Basel — a black crozier on a white field — are displayed centrally within a beaded inner circle, with the date divided by the shield on either side. The heraldic device is rendered in the Gothic style typical of early sixteenth-century Swiss municipal coinage. The surrounding legend runs clockwise within the outer border of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ✠ MONETA ⋆ NOVA ⋆ VRBIS ⋆ BASILINE 15 35 |
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Basel's Batzen issues of the early 1530s fall squarely within the city's turbulent embrace of the Reformation — the council had expelled Catholic mass in 1529, and the civic mint operated under new political authority almost immediately after. The HMZ 2#65 type is a relatively short-lived emission, produced across just three years before the denomination's specification shifted again under ongoing pressure to align with the broader Swiss monetary system.