Schilling Gold trial strike of ducat weight

Lucerne's monetary authority in the 1630s was navigating the chronic fragmentation of Swiss coinage — each canton effectively its own issuing body, with exchange rates between them a persistent source of commercial friction. This piece represents an experimental response: a gold schilling struck to ducat weight, probing whether a locally denominated coin could be anchored to the internationally accepted ducat standard without formally abandoning Lucerne's own monetary identity.

The absence of a KM number and the "A" superscript on the HMZ citation confirm trial status — this was never released for circulation. Wielandt records only a handful of surviving examples.