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Kreuzer
| Issuer | Canton of Solothurn |
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| Year | 1760-1798 |
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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Obverse description | The arms of Solothurn — a vertically striped shield surmounted by a ornate crested helm — are displayed at center within a beaded inner circle. The shield is flanked by the initials S and O in the field. The peripheral legend MONETA REIP · SOLOD encircles the device between the inner circle and the coin's rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Solothurn's late-eighteenth-century billon coinage was produced under increasingly strained circumstances as French Revolutionary pressure on the Swiss Confederation mounted through the 1790s. The canton's independent minting authority effectively ended when French forces established the Helvetic Republic in 1798, making the final years of this issue some of the most politically turbulent in Solothurn's minting history.