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Ducat Huldrych Zwingli
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1719 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1700-1798) |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTER HVLDRICVS ZVINGLI |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Zürich struck gold ducats commemorating Zwingli selectively and infrequently, using them largely as presentation pieces for civic dignitaries rather than circulating currency. The 1719 issue falls within a period of Reformed Protestant self-assertion in the Swiss Confederation, when Zürich's ruling council still traded heavily on its identity as the city of the Reformation — nearly two centuries after Zwingli died at Kappel in 1531, fighting in the front ranks of his own troops.
The missing Hürlimann and Divo/Tobler numbers suggest this piece sits outside the main documented runs, possibly a variant striking or a later restrike from original or reworked dies.