It is an integral part of our wallets and the circulation coin with the highest value: the five-franc coin. This year he celebrates his 100th birthday. The book «Paul Burkhards Fünfliber. 1922-2022: A classic turns 100″, which traces the eventful history of the 5-franc coin.
Sincona, auction house for numismatics, was able to win the coin expert Hanspeter Koch, who worked for Swissmint, the federal mint, for decades, as an author. It tells the eventful history of the five-franc coin – from the Swiss Federal Department of Finance’s 1918 competition for the design of a new five-franc coin, to the defective first steel originals, to the coin design from October 1924 with the shepherd in the alpine shuttle that we still know today.
Jürg Richter, managing director and auctioneer at Sincona, can be quoted as saying: “The Swiss franc is part of our identity. Despite this, Mr. and Mrs. Schweizer probably know very little regarding the coins they pay with. With our book, we want to tell one of the countless exciting stories that every Swiss person carries in their wallets in the form of coins and banknotes.»
Maybe it’s worth taking a look in your wallet? Five francs with the year 1928 are the rarest 5 franc coins with the shepherd that exist.
