Six sols (Geneva, 1765)

Alain Alcouffe and I will resume our series on Adam Smith in Switzerland soon; in the meantime, pictured below is a Genevan coin for six sols minted in 1765, the year of Smith’s first and only visit to the small but prosperous Swiss city-state during his grand tour years with the 3d Duke of Buccleuch. (More details about the Republic of Geneva’s coinage in the 18th century are available here, via Wikipedia.)

SWITZERLAND - REPUBLIC OF GENEVA 6 Sols 1765 fwo_911572 World coins
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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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