Thaler

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.