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Thaler
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1741-1743 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Zürich thalers of this period were struck under the authority of the city's council at a moment when the Swiss Confederation's internal politics were increasingly strained by confessional rivalries and competing cantonal interests. The city maintained its own mint and monetary independence jealously — a point of civic pride that these heavy silver pieces physically embodied.
The HMZ 1# reference places this squarely within Leu's exhaustive cataloguing of Helvetic coinage, which remains the authoritative standard for Swiss material. Dies for this type were prepared locally, and minor hub variations between the 1741 and 1743 emissions have been noted by specialists.