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Angster
| Issuer | City of Schaffhausen |
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| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised inner circle, the heraldic emblem of Schaffhausen depicted as a rampant goat leaping to the left, its body rendered in bold relief with pronounced haunches and curled horns; to the right, a crenellated tower with horizontal courses and a stepped base, serving as the civic symbol of the city. The composition is characteristic of 15th-century Swiss municipal coinage, with no surrounding legend, the entire design occupying the concave field typical of bracteate-influenced Angster coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse design, showing the goat and tower in negative relief as a result of the single-die hammered striking technique. The incuse surface displays the characteristic shallow, irregular depression of medieval Swiss small silver coinage, with the goat and tower motifs faintly discernible in reverse. |
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The Angster was a small Swiss accounting coin — its name likely derived from the Latin angustus, meaning narrow or tight, a reference to its minimal silver content. Schaffhausen's civic coinage rights were exercised intermittently throughout the late medieval period, and issues of this denomination reflect the city's commercial need for low-value exchange currency rather than any political statement. At roughly a third of a gram of silver, the striking process alone left little margin for error.