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Thaler
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1790 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central oval shield bearing the arms of Zürich (per pale Azure and Argent with a bend counterchanged), set upon an ornate thick mantle and flanked by lion head supporters at either side. The shield is surmounted by a decorative garland with laurel and palm sprigs. The surrounding legend is inscribed along the upper periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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By 1790, Zürich's authority to strike its own coinage was already living on borrowed time. The Helvetic Republic would arrive eight years later on the back of French Revolutionary armies, abolishing cantonal minting rights and forcing monetary consolidation across Switzerland. This thaler belongs to the last coherent run of independent Zürich municipal coinage before that rupture.
The Wunderly and Hürlimann references place this piece within a well-documented local series, but surviving specimens show meaningful variation in die state across the 639f sequence.