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⅙ Thaler
| Issuer | Zug |
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| Year | 1692 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1691-1798) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Zug — a divided field featuring a diagonal band — set within an elaborate baroque cartouche with scrollwork and foliate ornament. The shield is surmounted by a crown. The date 1692 appears integrated within the circular legend around the periphery. The legend reads MONETA · NOVA · TVGIENSIS · 1692 · in Latin capital letters, distributed evenly around the coin's border. |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in full, with wings spread and both heads facing outward, rendered in the baroque style typical of late 17th-century Swiss cantonal coinage. An oval escutcheon on the eagle's breast bears the fraction 1/6 denoting the denomination. The circular legend +CVM HIS·QVI OD PACEM·ERAM·PACIFICVS 1/6, a biblical reference from Psalm 120, runs around the periphery in Latin capital letters. |
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Zug was among the smallest and least economically powerful of the Swiss cantons, and its independent silver coinage of the late seventeenth century reflects the fractured monetary reality of the Confederation — each member state retained the right to strike its own issues, producing a bewildering variety of denominations that merchants were expected to reconcile by weight rather than face value. The 1692 issue falls within a period when Zug's mint output was sparse enough that surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.