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Schilling
| Issuer | Uri and Nidwalden, Monetary Union of |
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| Year | 1600-1605 |
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| Weight | 1.28 g |
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| Obverse lettering | VRANI · VNDERVAL |
| Reverse description | Saint Martin depicted as a full-length standing figure facing the viewer, vested in elaborate episcopal attire including a mitre, and holding a sword in one hand and a crosier in the other. The saint is framed within a decorative mandorla or beaded inner border, characteristic of hammered billon coinage of the Swiss cantons. The circumferential Latin legend naming the patron saint is distributed around the periphery of the flan. The overall style reflects the naive yet expressive engraving conventions of early seventeenth-century Swiss provincial minting. |
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The monetary union between Uri and Nidwalden was a pragmatic arrangement among two of the smaller Forest Cantons, pooling minting authority to produce viable small change that neither could sustain alone. Joint issues of this kind were never common in the Swiss confederate system, where each canton jealously guarded its minting privileges, making the collaboration itself historically notable.
HMZ 1#2-977a is the sole catalogued variety for this type, suggesting limited die production across the five-year emission window.