An Angster was originally a "thin", one-sided Swiss Pfennigmünze, which was first attested in the 14th century, for example in 1362 in Basel, and in later German-speaking Switzerland. The last coinage took place in Lucerne in 1847.
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Swiss-German twists like no maddener, or would be gibberish to ghosts, chuntnit to the Guldi still testified in the late 19th century from the once-spreading of the small coin.
Angster is etymologically related to the Latin angustus "narrow, narrow, thin"; the same word stem is also in fear as well as the vessel designation Angster. Literature and WeblinkQualtext edit
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