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CH 2010: Groundhog Day in Switzerland

Started by chrisild, January 22, 2010, 11:50:01 AM

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chrisild

Two new collector coins have just been issued in Switzerland: a bimetallic 10 fr piece that continues the National Park series, and a 20 fr silver coin which is part of the Mountain Railways series. Swissmint has some info in English http://www.swissmint.ch/en-products-newcoins.html about the new issues; that is also where the two images are from.

The 10 fr National Park coin features a groundhog, or rather an "alpine marmot". The theme of the 20 fr piece is the Bernina Railway which was completed 100 years ago. It shows a mountain scenery with a loop. Both coins were issued yesterday (21 January) and can be had in unc. at face value, and in a more expensive proof version.

Christian

chrisild

And here is the image of the 20 fr coin ...

Christian

Figleaf

Strikingly, the obverse of the 10F is in Italian only...

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

chrisild

Makes sense if you know the other coins in that series. :) They all show different animals, and the first issue (2007) was in Romansh, in the next year they used French, then German, and now Italian.

Christian