Basel's klippe issues of the seventeenth century were struck as presentation or display pieces rather than for everyday exchange — the square planchet format demanded by klippe production made mass circulation impractical. This specific type, catalogued by Winter, survives in small numbers, and specimens in collectible condition are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.
Basel's klippe issues of the seventeenth century were struck as presentation or display pieces rather than for everyday exchange — the square planchet format demanded by klippe production made mass circulation impractical. This specific type, catalogued by Winter, survives in small numbers, and specimens in collectible condition are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.