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5 Rappen
| Issuer | Canton of Basel |
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| Year | 1826 |
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| Value | 5 Rappen (0.05) |
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| Reverse description | A large, ornate Swiss cross dominates the central field, its squared arms elaborately decorated with quatrefoil rosette motifs and a central 'C' monogram encircled by a small floral wreath. Fleur-de-lis-style foliate ornaments spring from the inner angles of the cross arms. The circular legend SCHWEIZ·1826·CONCORD·CANTONE·DER arcs around the periphery, and the denomination 5 RP is inscribed in the lower field beneath the cross. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Basel's cantonal coinage authority had only a narrow window to strike issues under its own name — the Federal Coinage Act of 1850 swept away cantonal monetary autonomy entirely, standardizing the Swiss system under federal control. This 1826 piece predates that transition by a quarter century, produced when Basel still maintained its own mint and set its own billon standards. The HMZ 2-112d designation places it within a closely documented sequence of minor Basel issues, several of which show measurable variation in silver content across the run.