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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Inquisitive, post: 1046754, member: 20698&quot;]The swiss Franc was silver until 1967, with the five Franc coin also silver in 1969.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While liquidating a collection, I found 7 of these silver coins. Being an unusual composition (83.5% silver) I was unable to get a good price for them and bought them for myself. (an example (not mine) is below)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH]102774.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These coins contain .42 ASW, which at $27 silver, makes them worth 11.34 each.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Looking back historically, during Bretton Woods $1 = 4.375 francs, wich would make our 5 Franc coin worth $1.14, which at .715 ASW to the dollar (fractional coinage) gives the dollar about .82 ASW to our 5 swiss franc coin. I imagine this was the worth in 1964 (last year of 90% coinage).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fast forward to 2010:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Swiss Franc is at Parity to the dollar (or close enough). The silver value of the 5 Franc coin is 11.34, or 2.27 times melt.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The dollar is at 19.3 times melt (at 27 dollar silver).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What happened to our money? Inflation. The Swiss Franc until 2000 had to be backed by 40% in Gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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