HALLER: COIN OF ZURICH (SWITZERLAND)
3 haller, 1827-1841: Canton of Zürich (Switzerland)
ND (no date).
3 HALLER.
The coin's denomination is indicated inside the ornamental composition.
Coat of arms of Zürich inside oval shield; laurel and palm branches.
Mintage: 3.518.000.
- Silver (billon): 13 mm - 0.45 g
- Reference price: 12.5$
COIN HALLER — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- SWITZERLAND (15th-19th centuries) — SWISS CANTONS (Bern, Lucerne, Solothurn, Zürich...): haller = 1/30 batzen = 1/300 frank
HALLER as coin name.
The absolute majority of collectors of the world coins have at least one hEller coin in their collections, without even suspecting that there is such a coin as hAller.
Haller... If you look for some information about a coin with this name (but not heller, as it is most often found), you will definitely find small coins of old Switzerland, or rather coins of one of several Swiss cantons.
The fact is that at the beginning of the 13th century, one of the types of the German pfennig, common since the 10th century, began to be called heller after the place of its minting (at that time the city of Hall am Kocher; now it is Schwäbisch Hall). At first these coins were called "denarius hallensis" in Latin.
Having spread to southern German lands, the name of the coin was transformed into heller, while in the lands of modern neighboring Switzerland, the more logical name from a historical point of view — haller — was established.
Specimens (actually only a few types) of haller can be seen in numismatic catalogs in the Swiss cantons section, namely: Bern, Zürich, Solothurn, Lucerne... We are talking about the historical period from at least the 15th to the 19th century.
The most common type of this coin is the 3 haller issued by the Canton of Zürich in 1827-1841. It occurs en masse, the name is often erroneously indicated as heller, although the legend contains the wording HALLER.
So, historically, haller is a variant of heller.
