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Pistole
| Issuer | Republic of Geneva |
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| Year | 1753-1754 |
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| Value | 1 Pistole (140⁄51) |
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| Obverse lettering | RESPUBL· GENEVEN· IHΣ |
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| Reverse lettering | POST TENEBRAS LUX · J753 · |
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Geneva's pistole coinage of the 1750s was struck against a backdrop of acute political tension within the republic — the ongoing conflict between the ruling patriciate and the bourgeois and natif classes that would eventually culminate in the revolution of 1782. The city-republic maintained its own gold coinage partly as a deliberate assertion of independence from both French and Savoyard monetary influence, despite being economically entangled with both.
The two HMZ references — 338b and 338c — indicate distinct die varieties across the 1753 and 1754 issues, a split that collectors working the series track carefully.