LISTING OF PRE-1850 SWISS CANTONS AND OTHER ENTITIES THAT ISSUED DATED COINS

 

Includes the range of years dated coins were minted in Switzerland.

Earlier, undated coins were issued by these and many other entities.

 

Full Cantons are numbered, in alphabetical order. Three Cantons are composed of two “half-Cantons”. Other entities are placed with the present Cantons within whose territory they existed.

 

For a full understanding of all coins struck within Switzerland, from the Celts (300 B.C.) through modern times, the new HMZ Katalog (Volumes I and II) is needed.

 

1.       Aargau Canton (1805-1831)

Zofingen (1716-1726)

Laufenburg (1505-1623)

Abbey Muri (1720)

2.       Appenzell Innerrhoden (1737-1742)

Appenzell Ausserrhoden (1808-1816)

3.       Basel Canton (1805-1826)

City Basel (1491-1797)

Bishopric Basel (1595-1788)

Franquemont (1553-55)

4.       Bern Canton (1492-1836)

5.       Freiburg Canton (1515-1846)

Canton Sarine et Broye (1798)

Grafschaft Greyerz (1552)

Jesuiten-Pensionat (1840)

6.       Geneva (Genf) Canton (1535-1848, and Shooting Thaler 1851)

7.       Glarus Canton (1617-1814, and Shooting Thaler 1847)

8.       Graubunden Canton (1807-1842)

City Chur (1529-1766)

Bishopric Chur (1488-1766)

Gotteshausbund (1565-1570)

Abbey Disentis (1571-1729)

Herrschaft Haldenstein (1617-1770)

Herrschaft Reichenau-Tamins (1718-1748)

Misox (no dated coins, but minted in the period 1490-1518)

9.       Luzern Canton (1484-1846)

Beromünster (Abbey-c.1720; not listed in new HMZ – R. and K. consider them medallic)

10.   Neuchatel (Neuenburg) Canton (1589-1818)

11.   Unterwalden

Nidwalden (1569-1811)

Obwalden (1725-1812)

12.   St. Gallen Canton (1807-1817)

City St. Gallen (1424-1790)

Abbey St. Gallen (1622-1796)

13.   Schaffhausen Canton (1550-1809)

14.   Schwyz Canton (1571-1846)

Abbey Einsiedeln (1783)

15.   Solothurn Canton (1501-1830)

16.   Thurgau Canton1808-1809)

Abbey Fischingen (1726)

17.   Ticino (Tessin) Canton (1813-1841)

Uri, Schwyz und Unterwalden (1548-1599)

Uri und Nidwalden (1506-1600)

18.   Uri Canton (1569-1811)

19.   Vaud (Waadt) Canton (1804-1845)

      Bishopric Lausanne (no dated coins, but minted late 10^th c. to mid-16^th c.)

20.   Wallis Republik (1628)

Bishopric Sitten (1498-1778)

21.   Zug Canton (1564-1805)

22.   Zurich Canton (1504-1848)

Abbey Rheinau (1710-1723)

23.   Jura – no coins issued. Became separate from Bern in 1979.

 

Helvetian Republic (1798-1803-under Napoleon)

 

Confederation Coinage-modern federal coinage (1850-date)