Mintage: 500 pcs. Mint Place: Bern (Switzerland) Mint Year: dated 1722, struck 1904. Reference: Schweizer Medaillen 590. Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as SP-64! Denomination: Medal - Rebuilding of the Merchants` Guild House of Bern. Weight: ca. 8.2gm Material: Silver Diameter: 30mm
Obverse: Bust of an Armenian merchant left. All within two cornucopia in saltire. Legend: CONCORDIA FUNDAMENTUM FOELICITATIS CIVICӔ . Translated: "Concord is the foundation of civil happiness."
Reverse: Front-view of the Merchants` Guild House, located in Kramgasse 29 in Bern, Switzerland. Legend: EX RUINA CLARA RESURGO Translated: "I rise clear from the ruins." Exergue: REӔDIFICATA / 1722 Translated: "Rebuilded, 1722."
The Society of Merchants first appears in sources at the end of the 14th century as a merchant society. Since 1431 at the latest, the society had the privilege of market and trade police in the German-speaking areas of the city and republic of Bern. The society controlled weight and measure and exercised actual market police through overseers (Henseler).