fwo_707717 - SWITZERLAND - REPUBLIC OF GENEVA 3 Sols 1641 Genève
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : 3 Sols
Date: 1641
Mint name / Town : Genève
Quantity minted : -
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,47 g.
Edge : lisse
Coments on the condition:
Frappe sur un flan irrégulier. Le flan est voilé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GENEVA. CIVITAS. 1641.
Obverse description : Écu aux armes de la cité .
Obverse translation : (Cité de Genève).
Reverse
Reverse legend : POST. TENEBRAS. LVX.
Reverse description : Croix dans un quadrilobe.
Reverse translation : (Après les ténèbres, la lumière (Genèse)).
Historical background
SWITZERLAND - REPUBLIC OF GENEVA
Gegenna became Geneva on December 4, 1535. On November 24, 1535, the Council of Two Hundred decided to have coins minted in the name of the Republic of Geneva; the first sols de billon were minted in 1536. The Republic of Geneva was proclaimed on May 21, 1536 and the reformed religion became the state religion. Education becomes compulsory and free.
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