fwo_1038337 - SWITZERLAND - CANTON OF LUCERNE 20 kreuzer 1793 Lucerne
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Price : 130.00 €
Type : 20 kreuzer
Date: 1793
Mint name / Town : Lucerne
Metal : silver
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,16 g.
Edge : cordonnée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MON:NOV:REIP:LUCERNENSIS..
Obverse description : Écu festonné et couronné entre deux palmes.
Obverse translation : (République de Lucerne).
Reverse
Reverse legend : 1793 DOMINUS SPES POPULI SUI.
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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