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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.