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2 Rappen
| Issuer | Canton of Schwyz |
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| Year | 1811-1846 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 RAPPEN 1845 |
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Schwyz was among the last Swiss cantons to surrender its minting rights to the federal government, continuing to issue cantonal coinage well into the 1840s while political pressure mounted toward the monetary unification that would eventually arrive with the Federal Coinage Act of 1850. The billon composition — a debased silver-copper alloy — reflects the chronic small-denomination coinage problem common across the Swiss cantons, where pure copper was deemed too base yet silver too valuable for fractional issues.
The 35-year production window almost certainly masks substantial gaps in actual striking activity rather than continuous minting.