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Message:: [QUOTE="bart, post: 154828, member: 5580"]As chrisild already explained, there are 4 different manners to call "centimes" or "rappen" in Switzerland. You must imagine Switzerland has 4 official languages. That's also why they turn to Latin to put the country's name on coins: Confederatio Helvetica. It is Schweiz in German (or Schwytzerdütsch), Suisse in French, Svizzera in Italian and I don't know the name in Raeto-Roman (or Romansch). It just takes too much place to mention all of the languages. I am living myself in a country (Belgium) which has 3 different official languages (and language groups): Flemish (or Dutch), French and German. Before the euro, we knew the frank (in Flemish or German) or franc (in french), which was worth 100 centiemen (in Flemish), centimen (in German) or centimes (in French).As the German language group is very small (only 65.000 inhabitants in the so-called East-cantons, which were attached to Belgium after WW I), we only used to put Flemish and French on our circulation coins. To keep the balance between those language groups, we have known coins in Flemish or French, but also bilingual coins with the country names as BELGIE-BELGIQUE, but also as BELGIQUE-BELGIE (as I already explained, to keep the balance).On commemorative coins, we have tried in several cases Latin (BELGICA) or the country names in 3 languages (BELGIE-BELGIQUE-BELGIEN). You can imagine there was not much space left to put something else on the coin![/QUOTE]