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1 Batzen
| Issuer | Canton of Vaud |
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| Year | 1826-1834 |
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| Currency | Franc (1804-1845) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the quartered shield of Vaud — upper half bearing the canton motto LIBERTE ET PATRIE in two lines within a rectangular tablet, lower half with diagonal hatching — flanked on either side by a wreath of laurel branches tied at the base. The denomination 1 BATZ appears in the exergue below a horizontal bar. The circular legend CANTON DE VAUD, with the date 1832, runs along the upper periphery between a fine dentillated border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Vaud had only been a sovereign canton since 1803, when Napoleon's Act of Mediation reorganized the Helvetic Republic and freed it from Bernese dominance after nearly two centuries of subjugation. This Batzen was struck across nearly a decade of that early independence, a period when Swiss cantonal minting remained fragmented — each canton still issuing its own coinage before federal centralization swept the system away with the 1850 Federal Coinage Act. The billon alloy, barely a sixth silver, reflects the chronic shortage of specie that plagued smaller cantons throughout the post-Napoleonic period.