Rappen
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thumb|The Coins of the Swiss franc|Swiss 5-Rappen coin thumb|The Coins of the Swiss franc|Swiss 1-Rappen coin has not been valid since 2007. thumb|Rappenpfennig from Freiburg im Breisgau, ca. 1290
A Rappen (pl. Rappen) originally was a variant of the medieval Pfennig ("penny") coin common to the Alemannic German regions of Alsace, northern Switzerland and south-western Germany. As with other German pennies, its half-piece was a Haller, the smallest piece which was struck.
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