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Fünfer
| Issuer | City of Fribourg |
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| Year | 1480-1529 |
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| Currency | Écu (1475-1529) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts the tower arms of Fribourg — a crenellated tower rendered in Gothic style — enclosed within a plain inner circle. An eagle is displayed above the tower, serving as the civic heraldic supporter. The design is set within a beaded border, with the circumferential legend in Gothic uncial lettering reading +MONETA FRIBVRGI, separated by pellet stops and a star ornament. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Fribourg's late-medieval small silver coinage occupied an awkward political space — the city had only formally joined the Swiss Confederation in 1481, and its right to strike independent coinage was a point of civic pride carefully maintained against both Savoyard pressure and Bernese influence throughout this period. The Fünfer, worth five Pfennig, filled the gap left by the chronic shortage of petty silver across the Burgundian borderlands following the disruption of Valois mint output after Charles the Bold's death at Nancy in 1477.