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Schilling Klippe, 3 schillings weight
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1601-1700 |
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| Value | Schilling (1⁄72) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Klippe coinage from Zürich was produced as presentation or celebratory pieces rather than for everyday exchange — the square or rhomboid format demanded by the form made efficient minting impractical at volume. This example, struck in billon rather than fine silver, sits at the lower end of the prestige spectrum for the type, suggesting it served a commemorative-civic function rather than a high-status gift piece.
Winter Kl#26b places it within a catalogued sequence of seventeenth-century Zürich klippen that remains sparsely documented in terms of specific striking occasions.