Swiss Cantons, City of Geneva, BI 3 Sols

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Swiss Cantons
• Authority: City of Geneva
• Date: 1565 CE
• Denomination: BI (billon, debased silver) 3 Sols
• Size: 28mm, 3.35g
• Obverse: :GENEVA:  :CIVITAS: - Year above arms within circle.
• Reverse: *G* POST * TENEBRAS * LVX - Cross within quadrilobe within circle.
• 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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