v11_1675 - SWITZERLAND - CANTON OF LUCERNE 20 kreutzer 1795 Lucerne
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 121.96 €
Estimate : 243.92 €
Realised price : 243.92 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 335.39 €
Starting price : 121.96 €
Estimate : 243.92 €
Realised price : 243.92 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 335.39 €
Type : 20 kreutzer
Date: 1795
Mint name / Town : Lucerne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,16 g.
Edge : cordonnée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
La croix du revers transparaît légèrement au droit. Patine gris clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : RESPUBLICA - LUCERNENSIS.
Obverse description : Écu festonné et couronné entre deux palmes.
Obverse translation : (République de Lucerne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DOMINVS SPES POPVLI SVI .1795..
Reverse description : Croix formée de huit L adossées deux à deux, au centre : 20.
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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