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| Issuer | Canton of Bern |
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| Year | 1839 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK BERN 1838 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Additional information |
Bern's 1839 centime is an oddity of Swiss cantonal monetary practice: the silver-plated copper construction here is not a degraded example but the intended specification, with a single silver dot struck into each face as a deliberate assay marker or quality indicator — a feature catalogued under HMZ 1#2-241b and almost never encountered on mainstream cantonal issues of the period.