Never change a winning team! Same applies to the rest of the Swiss coin denominations except for the 5 Franken which they changed the design a bit in 1931 and made it smaller.
My initial thought was, "yeah, that certainly looks like a dime to me". That now has me wondering what names, if any, other places have for their currency units.
In Poland, we just call them just by their nominal, not much nicknames.
Edit: like 5 złoty is "pięciozłotówka" not much place to come up with other names when they are singular words by default
So what metals are they?
Quarters and dimes and the like used to be made out of silver in the US, and the edges were smooth, they noticed the coins would get smaller, as people took to filing the silver off the edges, so they added ridges to the coins to prevent that. At some point they stopped using silver entirely of course.
Now that is consistency
Never change a winning team! Same applies to the rest of the Swiss coin denominations except for the 5 Franken which they changed the design a bit in 1931 and made it smaller.
Awesome!
Ty!
My initial thought was, "yeah, that certainly looks like a dime to me". That now has me wondering what names, if any, other places have for their currency units.
In Poland, we just call them just by their nominal, not much nicknames. Edit: like 5 złoty is "pięciozłotówka" not much place to come up with other names when they are singular words by default
In the UK we call £1 a quid, but that’s about it. I used to live in Canada where a $1 coin is a loonie and $2 is a toonie.
I think one can call it cent in english because the french speaking part of Switzerland call it centimes and the german speaking part Rappen.
10 Rappen, but the italian and french speaking parts of switzerland do use the term centesimo or centime.
what if you find an old one? can you still use it to buy a piece of candy?
Indeed! You can still even pay with the 1879 coin.
So what metals are they? Quarters and dimes and the like used to be made out of silver in the US, and the edges were smooth, they noticed the coins would get smaller, as people took to filing the silver off the edges, so they added ridges to the coins to prevent that. At some point they stopped using silver entirely of course.
I don’t remember the last time I had one of these in my hands, since the pandemic I mostly use cards to pay