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Thaler
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1701-1739 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINE · CONSERVA · NOS · IN · PACE IDR |
| Reverse description | A finely engraved panoramic bird's-eye view of the city of Basel fills the entire field, depicting both banks of the Rhine River spanned by a wooden bridge, with numerous church spires, towers, fortified walls, and densely packed urban buildings rendered in meticulous detail. Small boats are visible on the river. At the top of the field, the city name BASILEA appears within an elaborate baroque cartouche featuring foliate and floral ornament. The composition is enclosed by the same milled bead border as the obverse, with no additional legend. |
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Basel's civic thalers of this period were minted under the authority of the city council, which had jealously guarded its minting rights since the medieval period — a privilege that survived the city's entry into the Swiss Confederation and outlasted repeated attempts by regional powers to consolidate coinage. The span from 1701 to 1739 brackets the War of the Spanish Succession and its economic aftershocks, years during which Basel's position as a commercial crossing on the Rhine made hard silver currency a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue.
HMZ 2#99a distinguishes this type from related Basel thaler issues by die specifics documented in Leu and Divo's corpus. Collectors should note that date legibility varies considerably across the series — several years are known from single specimens.