Ticino's cantonal coinage authority was short-lived. The canton struck its own silver fractions only between 1813 and 1835, after which Federal pressure toward monetary unification gradually rendered independent cantonal issues obsolete — the Helvetic monetary convention of 1825 had already begun constraining what individual cantons could legitimately put into circulation. This 1835 piece is the final year of the type.
Ticino's cantonal coinage authority was short-lived. The canton struck its own silver fractions only between 1813 and 1835, after which Federal pressure toward monetary unification gradually rendered independent cantonal issues obsolete — the Helvetic monetary convention of 1825 had already begun constraining what individual cantons could legitimately put into circulation. This 1835 piece is the final year of the type.