Lucerne's civic coinage in the late fifteenth century operated under the authority of the city's increasingly assertive magistracy, which had been consolidating control over local monetary production since joining the Swiss Confederation. The shift to Antiqua script on this schilling — departing from the Gothic textura common to contemporary Swiss issues — reflects a self-conscious civic identity rather than mere typographic fashion, one that distinguishes Lucerne's output sharply from its confederate neighbors during this window.
The Haas gap is notable. That corpus leaves this type unregistered despite the Wielandt attribution being well-established.
Lucerne's civic coinage in the late fifteenth century operated under the authority of the city's increasingly assertive magistracy, which had been consolidating control over local monetary production since joining the Swiss Confederation. The shift to Antiqua script on this schilling — departing from the Gothic textura common to contemporary Swiss issues — reflects a self-conscious civic identity rather than mere typographic fashion, one that distinguishes Lucerne's output sharply from its confederate neighbors during this window.
The Haas gap is notable. That corpus leaves this type unregistered despite the Wielandt attribution being well-established.