2 Rappen Wreath, bronze, heavy type

Switzerland's federal coinage was consolidated under a unified system in 1850, but the small-denomination bronze pieces went through repeated specification changes as the Confederation wrestled with the practical costs of producing coins worth almost nothing. The "heavy type" designation distinguishes this allotment from lighter predecessors — a quiet bureaucratic decision made in Bern that produced no public fanfare but left a cataloguer's headache of subtypes spanning nearly a century of the basic wreath design.

Production ran through 1941, the midpoint of Swiss wartime neutrality, when metal procurement across Europe was increasingly constrained by German industrial demands on regional suppliers.