1 Groschen

Schwyz was one of the three founding cantons of the Swiss Confederacy, and by the late eighteenth century its small billon issues circulated alongside a chaotic mix of cantonal, foreign, and ecclesiastical coinage that made everyday commerce genuinely difficult. The 1791 groschen was struck just two years before French Revolutionary forces began destabilizing the Confederation, culminating in the Helvetic Republic's imposition in 1798 — after which cantonal coinage authority was suppressed entirely. Surviving Schwyz issues from this final pre-Helvetic decade are accordingly scarce; production was small and the political disruption that followed left little incentive to preserve low-denomination billon.