value 1/2 Swiss francs, dime sized,
 

I went into a crappy antique store and found four swiss 1/2 francs slightly smaller than a dime and seemed to be silver, dated in the 40s. I paid the lady four bucks for them. any clue what they're worth?

I swung by the coin show and filled out the 40% Kennedys I needed for my folder, sorted through and picked up some VF mercs for my folder and a few barber dimes that were VF too. pulled em out of the $3 box but he gave em to me for 2 each, which I thought was nice.

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I had planned on going to the club and working out, going out to the pool, oiling up like a greek god, and lounging in the sun soaking up a few cuba libres but it turned over cast so I thought I'd hit the coin shop instead. It's a sickness. I have yet to mow the freakin lawn and finish the "honeydew" list-

The guy had just got a flowing hair cent from 1790s slabbed and he showed that to me, which was muy interresante, because I'd just read about that last night in a book.

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I polled the four or five guys in the coin shop and they all thought Ron Paul was great.

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Cut the lawn Anty, otherwise your wife is gonna put the hate on your coin collection.

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Finally someone who also likes the Swiss stuff!

ChF0,5 = 0,0671 oz or about $0,88 in silver. Much nicer than the dimes; I'd rather see Helvetia than that pernicious socialist Roosevelt.

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Value of a 1/2 Fr., regular quality, 1940's, according to "Numis Post" (the swiss numismatic periodical) -> 2 CHF ($1.50)

BTW, here's a picture from the original drawing on Swiss coins, and a picture of the current ones

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SKirner, just went through my european gold coin stash and found the same coin you have in your sig. It's an austrian 1/4 ounce gold coin from 1915, with a st. schwartz under the head of a king in front. Any reason why you like them?

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Anty Ep I got into the coin thing myself, it is a Freaking sickness. You must mow the freakin lawn and finish the freakin list, Heheheheheheeeee Or you know what will happen to your coin's..................

Hay im into the Swissys to :D


My 1898 1 Swiss Franc

found some info about it
UBS Gold & Numismatics

Auction date: January 29th, 2002

Lot number: 152

Price realized: 375 CHF (approx. 220 U.S. Dollars as of the auction date)


Schätzwert/Estimation: CHF 350.-
1 Franken 1898.
http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotvie...ID=163&Lot=152

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thanks

I confess a deep admiration for the Swiss for about a hundred reasons.

Hre are five 1 they speak German, Italian, and French, in some ways thus being the very type of the European nation, a fusion of Germanic and Romantic culture and language.

2.. they value gold and hard currency.

3. they are a confederation, enduring in their passion for local difference at a time when US and German "federalism" have come to mean something far less like "confederation" and something far more like French Napoleonic republicanism. The French model by the was was very much like the Roman model, with a strong center and an ever stronger executive. The model of federation or confederation, is typically Germanic and was the result of the accomodations the Holy Roman Emperor had to make to control the unruly Germanic feudal lords and tribes and hold them into something of an enduring union. There was a huge influx of Sweitzerdeutsch into the US in the early colonial times and they brought both the HRE notion federalism along with the even more decentralized notion of the Swiss confederation with them. THus, the US style of government is far more Germanic than Latinate. (a side point, but note that Hitler was something of a Napoleon who centralized the Reich into an imperial model and demoted the Lander from states to mere deparments)

4 the like guns and uphold best the old European idea of "citizen soldier." This goes far deeper than Germany or Rome, though "Cincinattus" was the Roman ideal of this; it goes back to Greece with its citizen hoplites; and it is characteristic of all the Aryan peoples of Europe who had a freeman-peasant leading his family as the fundamental social unit, not the slave, not the mercenary. In this the Aryan tribes were differentiated long long before the time of CHrist, from the Levantine peoples of the Middle East or the older Meditteranean littoral basin civilzations like the Egyptians who were very very stratified and employed a considerable amount of slavery. The Swiss remain this type today.

5-- they uphold free enterprise and invidualism while yet confirming the social unit of the Swiss Confederaton and the Canton; they are at once both communitarian and tolerant of individualism. This is the Golden Mean of the west, but I dont mind saying often people these days take individualism way way too far. The Swiss are closer to that sweet spot than are we by far.

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In numismatics, quality is everything... the quality seen on the picture means that your coin is valued at about 6 CHF ($4)... A perfect quality coin would be about 800 CHF ($700)

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Close; it's a 100 [thus the C] Corona coin, 0,98 oz. Ag. The Austrian Mint issues replicas dated 1915, thus they have little numismatic value above spot. I sniped all of mine below spot on eBay, so they must be relatively obscure to US buyers.

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Nice, thats what I got my 20 Corona for, spot. Back in the nineties, the bad old days for Gold and Silver.