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Thaler
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1736-1768 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A rampant lion facing right occupies the central field, holding a sword upright in its right paw and supporting the oval arms of Zürich — displaying the diagonal bipartite shield — with its left paw. The shield is set within an ornate baroque cartouche. Small floral or foliate sprigs appear in the lower field beneath the lion. The Latin legend MONETA REIPUBLICÆ TIGURINÆ runs clockwise around the periphery, bordered by an inner beaded circle and an outer milled rim. |
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| Mintage | 1736 - - 1739 - - 1741 - - 1743 - - 1745 - - 1748 - - 1751 - - 1753 - - 1756 - - 1758 - - 1761 - - 1767 - - 1768 - - |
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Zürich maintained its own coinage rights as a free imperial city well into the eighteenth century, and these thalers were struck to sustain trade with the German-speaking interior at a time when the city's mercantile networks stretched deep into Swabia and beyond. The type ran for over three decades with only minor die variations, reflecting deliberate monetary conservatism — Zürich's council was notoriously reluctant to alter coin types that enjoyed commercial acceptance.
Wunderly and Hürlimann both catalog the series, but die marriages across the 1736–1768 run remain incompletely documented.