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Batzen Klippe, 3 batzens weight
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1623-1624 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1621-1651) |
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| Reverse lettering | CIVITA : IMPERIALIS 1623 (Translation: Latin (unabridged): Civitatis imperialis. English: Of the Imperial City.) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Klippe issues from Zürich are almost exclusively tied to ceremonial or siege contexts, and this piece is no exception in its departures from round coinage — the square format was struck specifically for presentation purposes during a period when Swiss city-states occasionally produced multiples and klippen as gifts for civic dignitaries or visiting officials. The 1623–24 window places it squarely in the anxious years of the Thirty Years' War, when even neutral Swiss cantons felt monetary pressure from disrupted trade networks across the Rhine.
The HMZ 2#1154f designation with the Klippe suffix narrows this to a scarce subseries; Winter Kl#13a concurs on the die pairing.