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Stebler
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1601-1700 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the Basel city arms — a shield charged with a black crozier on a white ground — set within a raised inner circle. The shield displays concave sides bowing inward in the characteristic late medieval style. The design is executed in low relief typical of hammered bracteate-style minor coinage, with no surrounding legend. The entire composition is contained within a broad, plain raised border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Stebler was Basel's smallest silver denomination, used to settle the most trivial daily transactions at a time when the city was navigating the economic pressures of the Thirty Years' War and the disruption it brought to Rhine trade. Issues this light were chronically melted or lost, which accounts for their scarcity in any condition today.