Dicken Klippe, 2 dicken weight

Klippen of this type were not emergency issues — Zürich struck square coinage deliberately, as prestige pieces intended for presentation and collection rather than trade. The 1621 date places this directly within the Thirty Years' War, which had broken out three years earlier and was already disrupting monetary circulation across the Swiss Confederation's neighboring territories. Zürich's decision to produce square multiples in silver at this moment reads less as economic policy than as a confident assertion of civic stability.

The Winter Kl#8a attribution suggests a specific die marriage within a small documented group.