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Dicken Klippe, rosettes in fields
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1621 |
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| Value | 1 Dicken (1/4) |
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| Obverse lettering | ❀ MONETA ❀ NOVA ❀ THVRICENSIS (Translation: New coin of Zürich) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Klippe issues from Zürich in the early seventeenth century were produced as presentation pieces and Schaugepräge rather than for ordinary commerce — their square format made circulation impractical and was understood as such from the outset. The year 1621 falls squarely within the financial disruptions of the Thirty Years' War, when Swiss city-states periodically issued prestige coinage partly to assert civic credibility at a moment when Central European monetary order was collapsing around them.
The rosette varieties are distinguished from plain-field klippes in the Hürlimann sequence, and the Winter Kl#8b attribution specifically separates this die pairing from the commoner 8a.