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Leibzoll

Schaffhausen Dicken coin from 1617. It corresponds to the Leibzoll of 24 kreuzers that Jews had to pay from 1676 onwards to stay in Schaffhausen. Coin in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.

The Leibzoll (German: "body tax") was a special toll that Jews had to pay in most European states from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.


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