Evidence coverage: 1803–1852. 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.
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Zurich government sources of 1803 reckon in local gulden.
Sources and qualifications →Zürich continued to reckon in gulden of 40 schillings after the gold coins ceased circulating. The MoneyMuseum identifies the Rhenish gold gulden as the basis of that accounting tradition.
Sources and qualifications →Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
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.
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Zurich government sources of 1803 reckon in local gulden.
p168, Anhang2 Währungen
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Zürich continued to reckon in gulden of 40 schillings after the gold coins ceased circulating. The MoneyMuseum identifies the Rhenish gold gulden as the basis of that accounting tradition.
Printed pp. 12 and 128, glossary Gulden; PDF pages 10 and 113
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The Zürich 40-schilling accounting gulden derives from Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning. The precise formation date and every intervening local stage are not established.
Printed pp. 12 and 128, glossary Gulden; PDF pages 10 and 113
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.