1 Angster

The Lucerne Angster survived well into the Swiss federal period as a purely cantonal stopgap — after the Helvetic Republic collapsed in 1803, individual cantons resumed striking their own small copper, and Lucerne continued issuing the Angster denomination that had circulated in the region since the medieval period. This particular type was among the last such issues before the newly formed Swiss Confederation rationalized the currency system with the Federal Coinage Act of 1850, which abolished cantonal monetary autonomy entirely.