Includes glass top leatherette display box.
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Origin: Swiss Cantons
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Authority: City of Bern
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Date: 1619 CE
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Denomination: BI (billon, debased silver) 1 Kreuzer
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Size: 19mm, 0.9g
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Obverse: MONE BERNENSIS 1619: (Moneta Bernensis) - Eagle over bear within circle. Year in lengend.
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Reverse: + BERCHT·D·ZERIN·COND - Cross within beaded circle. Legend surrounding.
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Notes: In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Swiss cantons formed a loose confederation known as the Old Swiss Confederacy, rather than a unified nation. Each canton governed itself independently, with significant differences in religion—some were Catholic while others followed Protestantism after the Reformation. Despite internal tensions and occasional conflicts, the cantons maintained a degree of cooperation for mutual defense and economic stability until the confederation was transformed by the French invasion of Switzerland at the end of the 18th century.
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