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Old 6th August, 2005, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by chrisbard
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A 20-franc Swiss gold coin, fine gold content 0.1867 troy ounces, 900 fine, with a portrait of a girl on the face, which first appeared in 1897 and was minted until 1949. In all, 58.6 million of these coins were struck.

Send them over dude !

Holy burnt rubber, Batman! Sheesh, now I gotta send chrisbard three AOA badges, arrgh. That was fast. Oops, I forgot about Google. Duuh. Hokay, please PM me with your street address, chrisbard.

The woman's image on the obverse of the coin screams "Hello, I'm very utilitarian. Please point me to the stable or kitchen, I live for work." No beauty is she. If I designed a gold coin, I'd put a beautiful face on it. 58 million ugly faces, what a terrible waste of .900 fine gold. Just my opinion, of course.
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