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4 Heller / Vierer
| Issuer | City of Schaffhausen |
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| Year | 1626-1630 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Schaffhausen's billon issues of this period reflect the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the Swiss cantons throughout the Thirty Years' War. With trade routes disrupted and bullion supplies uncertain, municipal authorities across the Confederation resorted to low-denomination emergency coinage well below the quality standards of earlier issues. The city's mint rights, confirmed by imperial privilege, allowed it to strike independently — a prerogative Schaffhausen guarded jealously against encroachment from larger neighbors.
HMZ cataloguing places this among several closely related Vierer types that are difficult to attribute without die study.