Angster

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Descrizione del rovescio	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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Zecca	Schaffhausen Mint
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Informazioni aggiuntive	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.