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Rappen
| Issuer | City of Zürich |
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| Year | 1633 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Reverse lettering | MONETA TIGURINA |
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| Mintage | 1633: ND (1633) |
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Zürich's municipal coinage of this period operated under a patchwork of cantonal monetary agreements that the Swiss Confederation never fully standardized — a deliberate jurisdictional ambiguity that allowed city-states like Zürich to maintain independent striking authority well into the seventeenth century. The 1633 date places this piece squarely within the Thirty Years' War, during which trade disruption and coin hoarding across the German-speaking lands created persistent shortages of small-denomination billon that cities scrambled to address locally.
HMZ 2#1170 is a recognized variety within the Zürich rappen sequence documented by the Historical Monetary Census of Switzerland.