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3 Kreutzers
| Issuer | Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden |
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| Year | 1738 |
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| Value | 3 Kreuzer = 1 Groschen (1⁄40) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Appenzell Innerrhoden remained one of the few Catholic cantons after the confessional split that fractured the Swiss Confederation in the sixteenth century, and its coinage consistently reflected that confessional identity in ways that set it apart from its Protestant neighbors. The canton's minting activity was sporadic by necessity — a small, landlocked, predominantly pastoral community had limited commercial need for coin production at scale. The 1738 issue falls within a period when many Swiss cantons were reasserting local monetary production partly in response to the chronic influx of debased foreign billon circulating in regional markets.
HMZ catalogues this piece under the Innerrhoden series with only a handful of recorded die marriages, suggesting limited production volume.