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40 Batzens Counterstamped
| Issuer | Canton of Bern |
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| Year | 1816-1819 |
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| Value | 40 Batzen |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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During the upheaval following the Napoleonic Wars, Bern faced a severe shortage of large-denomination silver coinage. Rather than strike an entirely new issue, the canton authorized the counterstamping of existing foreign thalers — primarily Brabant and French écus — circulating within its borders, legitimizing them at 40 Batzen and bringing them formally into the local monetary system. It was an expedient solution typical of cash-strapped post-war cantonal administrations across Switzerland.
The counterstamp itself, applied between 1816 and 1819, is the coin's primary collectible attribute. Host coin identity matters considerably to value here.