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Thaler
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1756 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#158, HMZ 2#99f |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINE CONSERVA NOS IN PACE H |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Basel's thalers of this period circulated widely beyond the city's own walls — the Swiss Confederation had no unified coinage, and individual cantons and city-states each struck their own silver to fill the gap. By the mid-eighteenth century, Basel's commercial position on the Rhine made its currency acceptable across a broad stretch of the upper Rhine valley and into the adjacent German territories. HMZ 2#99f places this among a tightly sequenced series of Basel thalers differentiated primarily by die variation in the shield quartering and minor legend spacing.