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5 Batzen
| Issuer | Canton of Vaud |
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| Year | 1826-1831 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the quartered cantonal shield of Vaud, the upper half bearing the motto LIBERTE ET PATRIE inscribed on a rectangular tablet, the lower half diagonally hatched, surmounted by an oak and laurel wreath tied at the apex. The shield is flanked by crossed laurel branches forming a wreath, their stems joined at the base. The circular legend CANTON DE VAUD, the date 1827, and the mintmaster's initials BEL appear around the periphery, with the denomination 5. BATZ inscribed below the shield in the exergue area. |
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| Edge | Obliquely reeded |
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Vaud had only become a canton in 1803 under Napoleon's Act of Mediation, which dissolved the old Helvetic Republic and granted the former Bernese subject territory its own sovereign status. The right to strike cantonal coinage followed from that autonomy, and Vaud exercised it aggressively through the 1820s before federal monetary consolidation under the 1850 Swiss franc system rendered all such issues obsolete within a generation.
The .670 fineness places this below the standard of contemporary federal-era Swiss issues — a deliberate economy that drew periodic criticism from neighboring cantons conducting cross-border trade.