Bern's municipal coinage of the late fourteenth century emerged from the city's growing financial autonomy as a Swiss Confederation member, minting small silver fractions to serve local market transactions at a time when Habsburg-issued coin dominated the region. The Zweier — worth two Angster — sat at the practical floor of silver denomination, worn through hundreds of hands at weekly markets before most examples gave out entirely. Survivors in any definable condition are genuinely scarce.
Bern's municipal coinage of the late fourteenth century emerged from the city's growing financial autonomy as a Swiss Confederation member, minting small silver fractions to serve local market transactions at a time when Habsburg-issued coin dominated the region. The Zweier — worth two Angster — sat at the practical floor of silver denomination, worn through hundreds of hands at weekly markets before most examples gave out entirely. Survivors in any definable condition are genuinely scarce.