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Kreuzer
| Issuer | City of Bern |
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| Year | 1781 |
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| Weight | 1.74 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A floriated cross with trefoil or budded terminals at each arm occupies the center of the field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Small pellets are visible in the angles between the arms of the cross. The circumferential Latin legend DOMINUS PROVIDEBIT encircles the upper portion, with the date 1781 positioned in the lower segment of the legend band, all contained between the inner beaded border and an outer milled rim. |
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A gold Kreuzer from Bern is an anomaly almost by definition — the denomination was overwhelmingly a copper or billon coin throughout the Swiss cantons, and striking one in gold served no practical monetary function. Such pieces were almost certainly produced as presentation strikings or Neujahrstaler-style gifts, a tradition among Swiss municipal mints of producing showpiece coins for civic dignitaries. The Canton of Bern maintained its own minting authority until the Helvetic Republic abolished cantonal coinage rights in 1798, making 1781 comfortably within that independent window.