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5 Schillings
| Issuer | Canton of Schwyz |
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| Year | 1787 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crowned oval shield bearing the cantonal arms of Schwyz — a plain field charged with a small cross in the upper dexter canton — flanked by olive or laurel sprigs extending from below. A small mint mark appears beneath the shield in the lower field. The crown above the shield is of ornate heraldic form. |
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| Mintage | 1787 |
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Schwyz was among the smallest and most conservative of the Swiss cantons, and its late-eighteenth-century silver issues were produced in very limited quantities for a population that conducted most local exchange through barter or foreign coin. The 1787 date places this piece just two years before the French Revolution began destabilizing the Confederation's southern neighbors — within a decade, Napoleonic reorganization would dissolve cantonal monetary independence entirely under the Helvetic Republic of 1798.
The HMZ 2#801b designation distinguishes this from closely related die varieties in the series; Divo/Tob cataloguing confirms it as a documented subtype rather than a die accident.