Bern struck its own cantonal coinage under the Mediation Act framework that Napoleon imposed on Switzerland in 1803, which restored limited sovereignty to the cantons after the short-lived Helvetic Republic had centralized everything. This 1 Rappen belongs to that window of cantonal monetary autonomy that closed permanently when the Swiss Confederation established federal coinage in 1850, rendering issues like this one obsolete within a generation of their last striking.
Bern struck its own cantonal coinage under the Mediation Act framework that Napoleon imposed on Switzerland in 1803, which restored limited sovereignty to the cantons after the short-lived Helvetic Republic had centralized everything. This 1 Rappen belongs to that window of cantonal monetary autonomy that closed permanently when the Swiss Confederation established federal coinage in 1850, rendering issues like this one obsolete within a generation of their last striking.