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15 Schillings / 45 Rappen
| Issuer | Canton of Glarus |
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| Year | 1806-1814 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination, expressed in two monetary units, is displayed within an open wreath of laurel and oak branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The Roman numeral XV appears at the top, followed by SCHILLING, separated from 45. RAPPEN below by a horizontal rule, all inscriptions centered within the wreath in the open field. |
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| Mintage | 1806 B - - 7,067 1807 B - - 1811 B - - 1813 B - - 1814 B - - |
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Glarus was among the smallest and least economically active of the Swiss cantons, and its decision to strike fractional silver during the Helvetic Confederation's collapse and the subsequent Mediation period reflects the chronic shortage of reliable small change that plagued all the restored cantonal governments after 1803. The dual denomination — expressed simultaneously in both Schillings and Rappen — was a direct concession to the monetary confusion of the period, when older Rappen-based accounting and traditional Schilling reckoning coexisted uneasily across different valleys and trading relationships.
The HMZ reference places this squarely in a short-lived cantonal series discontinued well before Swiss monetary unification in 1850.