Evidence coverage: 1850–1865. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
The federal Swiss franc adopts the French silver-franc standard. Standard relationship, not French currency replacement in Switzerland.
C781, C1652Supporting material, not parents or children.
The federal Swiss franc adopts the French silver-franc standard. Standard relationship, not French currency replacement in Switzerland. The retained evidence establishes a metal or valuation standard, not succession of the principal unit of account. Keep it as profile context; exclude it from ancestry traversal.
Sources and qualifications →Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Switzerland established the national Swiss franc in 1850, before a single central bank existed; central-bank establishment in 1907 is a separate milestone.
C511Inference: The Helvetic experiment precedes federal unification. Cantonal fragmentation intervenes; not an uninterrupted national currency.
C779Federal Swiss money replaces a plurality of local currencies. No universal cantonal 1:1 exchange rate is supplied.
C780The federal Swiss franc adopts the French silver-franc standard. Standard relationship, not French currency replacement in Switzerland.
C781Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Switzerland established the national Swiss franc in 1850, before a single central bank existed; central-bank establishment in 1907 is a separate milestone.
Paragraph beginning Coins and, later, banknotes
The Helvetic experiment precedes federal unification. Cantonal fragmentation intervenes; not an uninterrupted national currency.
Helvetic Republic and federal monetary reform sections
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Federal Swiss money replaces a plurality of local currencies. No universal cantonal 1:1 exchange rate is supplied.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Helvetic Republic and federal monetary reform sections
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
The federal Swiss franc adopts the French silver-franc standard. Standard relationship, not French currency replacement in Switzerland.
Named short source page; relevant history/definition passage as reported in the handoff.
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Switzerland participates in the common coinage convention.
Passage on law of 5 June 1832
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
Zurich legislation converted Zurich-gulden money contracts into federal Swiss francs at one gulden to 2⅓ francs. The legislative act dates from 28 January 1851; implementation is scoped to the 1851–1852 federal reform.
StAZH OS8 pp228–231, §§1–5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full 3-page archival transcription inspected
The 1851 Zurich law converted contracts labelled Reichswährung, including Schaffhausen, Thurgau and St. Gall currency, into federal francs through a separate statutory rate. The legislative act dates from 28 January 1851; implementation is scoped to the 1851–1852 federal reform.
StAZH OS8 pp228–231, §§1–5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full 3-page archival transcription inspected
Section 3 converted old Swiss-franc contracts at sixteen old francs to ten Zurich gulden, then to federal francs. The legislative act dates from 28 January 1851; implementation is scoped to the 1851–1852 federal reform.
StAZH OS8 pp228–231, §§1–5
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full 3-page archival transcription inspected
The federal Swiss franc adopts the French silver-franc standard. Standard relationship, not French currency replacement in Switzerland.
; retained source evidence behind C781
Handoff acceptance is not a claim that every source was independently reread.
The Helvetic monetary law of 19 March 1799 carried forward the previous Bernese franc as the Swiss franc, with decimal subdivisions of ten batzen and one hundred rappen. This supports continuity of the account unit across the territorial and subdivision change, rather than a separate currency identity.
Chapter VI, printed pp. 142–143; especially p. 143 first paragraph, citing Strickler II p. 312 and III p. 1381; Printed pp. 2–5 (Bern); pp. 49–50 (1799 accounting reform and parliamentary explanation)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read chapter OCR and visually inspected printed p. 143.
Chapter VI, printed pp. 142–143; especially p. 143 first paragraph, citing Strickler II p. 312 and III p. 1381; Printed pp. 2–5 (Bern); pp. 49–50 (1799 accounting reform and parliamentary explanation)
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read pp. 2–5 and 49–50 OCR; visually inspected p. 5.