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2 Rappen
| Issuer | Canton of Aargau |
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| Year | 1808-1816 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The quartered cantonal shield of Aargau, displaying horizontal wavy lines in the lower-left quarter and vertical lines with three mullets (six-pointed stars) in the right half, is depicted centrally in the field, flanked on either side by a laurel branch whose stems cross at the base. The shield is of pointed form. The circular legend reads *CANTON * ARGAU* with star-shaped stops, enclosed within a toothed border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Aargau was forcibly constituted as a Swiss canton by the Helvetic Republic in 1803 under Napoleon's Act of Mediation, carved out of territories that had previously been subject lands of the old Confederation. The canton's early independent coinage, including this billon issue, reflects that newly granted sovereignty — the right to strike money was among the first acts of administrative self-assertion. Production ceased by 1816 as Swiss monetary consolidation began eroding cantonal minting privileges.