Bern 1775 4 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 5116 in Sincona Auction 102 (Zürich, October 2025), where it sold for 425 CHF (about US$641 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHWEIZ Bern, Stadt und Kanton, Batzen 1775, Bern. Seltener Jahrgang. Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (Switzerland, city and canton of Bern, batzen of 1775, Bern mint. Rare date, Very Fine-Extremely Fine.)"
Bern, one of the cantons of Switzerland, struck coins fairly steadily throughout the eighteenth century altho thalers are scarce. The coinage was interrupted by Napoleonic occupation but resumed in 1817. In 1839, the coinage was decimalized to 100 centimes = one franc and one, two, four, ten and twenty-five centimes were issued, all in billon. This type was struck 1717, 1754, 1765-66, 1770-78, 1784, 1789, 1793-98 and this is a better date. Four kreuzer = 1 batzen = 1/40 of a thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.35 g, billon, 24 mm diameter, this specimen 2.45 g.
Catalog reference: KM 87, D.T. 524h, HMZ 2-223h.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Richter, Jürg, and Ruedi Kunzmann, Neuer HMZ-Katalog, Band 2: Die Münzen der Schweiz und Liechtensteins 15//16. Jahrhundert bis Gegenwart, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Gietl Verlag GmbH, 2006.
- [1]Richter, Jurg, SINCONA Auction 102: The Konrad Bürki Collection - Part 4 (Swiss Cantonal Coins), Zurich: SINCONA AG, 2025.
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