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1/3 Thaler
| Issuer | City of Basel |
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| Year | 1764-1766 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The fractional denomination 1/3 is displayed prominently at center within a finely engraved laurel wreath tied with a ribbon bow at the base, with the date appearing below the wreath. The encircling Latin legend MONETA REIPUB· BASILEENSIS, identifying the coin as currency of the Republic of Basel, runs along the periphery. The overall design is clean and emblematic of Swiss municipal silver coinage of the later eighteenth century. |
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Basel struck this fractional thaler during a period when the city-republic maintained its own monetary authority largely out of institutional inertia — Swiss civic mints were already losing ground to larger regional powers, and issues of this brevity, running only across 1764 to 1766, suggest a short-term demand rather than a sustained monetary program. The HMZ 2-101 attribution places it firmly within the documented Basel civic series, though surviving examples are encountered infrequently enough that auction appearances tend to cluster in Swiss specialist sales rather than general European coin markets.