fwo_663153 - SWITZERLAND - CANTON OF LUCERNE 1/8 Gulden ou 5 Schilling 1793 Lucerne
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Price : 70.00 €
Type : 1/8 Gulden ou 5 Schilling
Date: 1793
Mint name / Town : Lucerne
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,37 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
monnaie nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MON. NOV. REIP. LUCERN..
Obverse description : Écu festonné et couronné entre deux palmes.
Obverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle de la République de Lucerne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DOMINUS SPES POPULI SUI 1793.
Reverse description : Croix formée de huit L adossées deux à deux ; au centre petite couronne.
Reverse translation : (Le Seigneur est l’espoir de son peuple).
Historical background
SWITZERLAND - CANTON OF LUCERNE
The city grew around the Benedictine monastery founded in 750. It joined the Swiss Confederation as the fourth member in 1332. Lucerne, which remained the capital of Catholicism in Switzerland until the 19th century, had an oligarchic government which was overthrown in 1798, when the French arrived and seized the city. It becomes at one time the capital of the Helvetic Republic. Restored to its cantonal integrity by Bonaparte's act of mediation in 1803, Lucerne regained its independence in December 1813.
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