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1992 1/2 Franco Wrong Die Position?

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 Posted 09/18/2013  11:24 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Carlos arriaga to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have 5 coins from France. 4 of them use the COIN AXIS (front turn over). But the 1/2 Franc use The MEDAL AXIS (open book). Is this an error? The other denomination are 5 Francos, 2 Francos and 1 Franco. Thank a lot for your opinion.

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 Posted 09/18/2013  2:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gwyde to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The pictures you show are Swiss coins, not French. A random sample of a few Swiss coins I have at hand show 1/2 franc and 10 rappen in medal alignment. (I need to check about other denominations.) I therefore guess medal alignment is common.
By the way: these coins are still legal tender. 1968 is the first year nickel was used for the 5 Swiss Franc coin.
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09/18/2013 2:36 pm
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 Posted 09/18/2013  2:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Carlos arriaga to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank Gwyde for your opinion. Because the sound FRANCOS. and FRANCE. I tough was money from that country.
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 Posted 09/18/2013  2:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gwyde to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If it can be of any help, you find all Swiss coins in the Numista catalogue:

http://en.numista.com/

The 5 Swiss franc coin you've shown is common with a very high mintage for 1968.

http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces195.html

The peculiarity about it, is that the coin orientation changed in 1982 to medal alignment.
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 Posted 09/18/2013  3:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Carlos arriaga to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank again. It's a little funny "a coin with NOT COIN ORIENTATION" But medal orientation.
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 Posted 09/28/2013  11:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrisild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The term "medal alignment" for coins with parallel orientation is indeed pretty funny, as modern coins are all oriented that way. Well, almost all - the only countries in this world where coins still have that inverse orientation are the United States, Thailand and South Korea, I think. :)

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 Posted 09/29/2013  12:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nalaberong to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The Swiss 5-franc coin is actually the textbook example used to illustrate die axis in the latest Krause Catalogs, as both rotations can be found.

It's not an error, but 5 Swiss francs is worth more than $5 right now, so it's still valuable :)
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 Posted 09/29/2013  06:35 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrisild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No, not an error. I recently mentioned that elsewhere; what was peculiar about the Swiss orientations was that the lower denominations had the parallel alignment for many years (since 1880 or so) while the higher denominations (½ Fr and above) initially used the inverse alignment. That was "fixed" more than 30 years ago - since 1982 the parallel alignment has been used for all Swiss circulation coins. And yes, 5 CHF is about 5.50 USD or 5.70 CAD ... except that banks will usually not exchange coins. ;)

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