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Started by Vivek, July 24, 2011, 12:06:21 PM

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Vivek

Hello All
Attaching pictures of Franks which I have. I do not have much information about these coins. Experts can give more information.
Vivek

chrisild

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Let's start with the easy stuff. :) The coins that say "République Française" are from France, the ones that say "Confoederatio Helvetica" are from Switzerland.

The pieces are, as far as I can tell, fairly common, so don't expect any particular riches here. The first two in the first image (1 fr, 5 fr) are "old franc" pieces, from before 1960 (currency reform). The two lower ones  - 1 fr, 2 fr - are "new franc" coins that were in use until the end of 2001; they can still be redeemed, I think.

In the second image you have (top row) a Swiss 5 fr coin - here the "B" mintmark means Bern. If that was silver, your coin would be extremely rare and worth about €10,000 ;) but it's probably the Cu-Ni type, with a mintage of about 34 million. Next to it, a Swiss 1 fr coin. The 10 francs dated 1958 is from France before the 1960 reform again.

Christian

Vivek

Hello Christian
Thanks lot for information!!I have few more coins ..I will upload pictures soon.
Restriction size to 65kb is tough task. I usually take pictures from 8 Mpix camera or 5Mp mobile....any suggestions for restricting size?
Vivek

chrisild

In the bottom image, you have the "B" mintmark on both coins - except that on the left (French) it means Beaumont-le-Roger while on the right (Swiss) it means Berne again.

As for the image sizes, have a look here http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,120.0.html for example. There are tools that let you resize an image, or reduce its resolution. Another option is to post your images to a third party (or maybe your own) website, and then use links here ...

Christian

bart

The Swiss coins are still in circulation. Next time you go to Switzerland, you can spend them.

Bart