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2 1/2 Rappen
| Issuer | Canton of Vaud |
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| Year | 1809 |
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| Diameter | 18.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the inscription LIBERTE ET PATRIE in two lines within the shield's field, rendered in a plain heraldic style. The circular legend CANTON DE VAUD runs along the periphery, divided by the shield's position. The date 1809 appears in the exergue below the shield. The design is simple and utilitarian, consistent with early 19th-century Swiss cantonal coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Vaud had only existed as a sovereign canton since 1803, when Napoleon's Act of Mediation reorganized the Helvetic Republic and granted it independent status after nearly three centuries under Bernese rule. The 2½ Rappen denomination is an awkward fraction that reflects the transitional accounting of the period, when cantonal authorities were still reconciling older local monetary systems with the decimal ambitions of post-revolutionary Europe. Full Swiss monetary unification wouldn't come until 1850.