1 Rappen

Zug was among the smallest and least economically active of the Swiss cantons, and its cantonal copper issues were produced in tiny quantities to serve a local economy where billon and foreign specie did most of the real work. Production ran across more than two decades but was almost certainly intermittent — the canton had neither the population nor the commercial throughput to sustain continuous minting of the lowest denomination.

With Swiss federalization under the Helvetic Republic in 1798, cantonal monetary authority was effectively suspended, making post-1798 strikes from this series politically anomalous survivors of a system already declared obsolete.