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5 Rappen
| Issuer | Canton of Fribourg |
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| Year | 1806 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Fribourg — divided per fess, the upper half crosshatched (representing the traditional black-and-white bicolor of the canton), the lower half featuring a small eagle — enclosed within a twisted rope border. The circular legend CANTON FREIBURG runs along the periphery, with the date 1806 positioned in the exergue below the shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | CANTON FREIBURG 1806 |
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Fribourg's cantonal coinage authority was already living on borrowed time when this piece was struck. The Act of Mediation of 1803 had restored cantonal sovereignty after the Helvetic Republic's failed experiment with centralization, but Swiss monetary unification was an inevitability the cantons could not indefinitely resist. Fribourg continued issuing its own small denominations for several more years before federal pressure gradually ended the practice.
Billon coinage of this period varies considerably in silver content depending on the striking date and batch — HMZ cataloguers have noted this across multiple cantonal issues of the early Mediation period.