Hi cutlerylover! I'm from Switzerland and the Person on this coin is Wilhelm tell a fictious hero from a story from Schiller (a famous german poet) who fought for the Swiss people and freed them from the Habsburger (an austrian folk) and at the end of the story there's the famous "Rütli-Schwur" (Rütli-Oath) where 3 Cantons (that's someting like a state) stood together and set the base fpr the Swiss-Country (Sorry for bad english! :-))
Not boring at all. Big fan of the variety of topics and items you feature.. I might have also dismissed a coin like that, now I'll take a few minutes to 'look it up' as you did Thanks for the video (looks like the next one is #900 congrats)
@pdawg691 Probably non. Quarters are the most widely circulated coin. The best bet would be to get half dollars to search through. But even finding a silver one in hundreds is rare. Silver coins were pulled out of circulation almost 50 years ago. If you live in a small town with an old bank the chances get a little better though, because they might have old rolls of half dollars that were not re-circulated much.
The B is for Bern - where the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Mint are located. It is also the capital of Switzerland. Also, 94 cents to the Franc means the Franc is worth less than the dollar. It takes 1.07 Francs to buy 1 US dollar currently, which is the inverse way of expressing the exchange rate.
well even though its 4 in the morning, i like to learn. and about coinstar, i cashed in some change i had, there was a lady using it before me, i was watching it count her qaurters. she had a big popcorn tin full of them. she got 1300 dollars out of quarters. then she started talking to me and said she had about 100 dollars in pennies and the other smaller change before i showed up. thats alot of change. lol
do you know anything about a half dime? we found one with a metal detector on an old town site at first we just thought it was a metal cap and threw it in our bag but when we got home i noticed on the bottom it said 1839!! and above it said half dime.
@WiccaIsGood ahhh that kinda sucks it would have been fun to go through alot of quarters and see what comes out of it :-/, but one day at work like 2 months ago a coworker was trying to get something out of the vending machine and it wouldnt take his dime :-p so i gave him one of mine that wasnt silver. so i got 1 silver dime for $0.10
good info. also the coinstar machines will also kick out silver dimes. I had one that I tried to put in twice and never realized that it was silver until I watched your videos. Found out that 10 cents was worth $1.34 at the time. thanks again for all your videos and info.
@walatalalaw I underestand what your saying, but the coins books represent the same calculations as mentioned I have the silver content info 1st and had to solve the problem backwards to start off...So the silver content is the same perhaps my calulation of "other" base metals is off...
I was hoping you would make a video like this eventually. I'm not very much into precious metals but i've been a coin collector since i was a little kid.
@pdawg691 Ohh, I see...you woudl be lucky to find one of them...but some peopel buy cases of half dollars from the banks to go through and look for silver ones...
3:42 As far as I know this is supposed to be Wilhelm Tell, a fictional person, I'm not sure about his origins, but Friedrich Schiller's play with the same name is about him and about the beginning of the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1291.
If I'm wrong with my assumption and this isn't Wilhelm Tell, then the most reasonable possibility would be Niklaus von Flüe. In that case you would be right with assuming that this is the depiction of a saint, as Niklaus was sanctified after his death. He was important for the confederacy, as a lot of politicians sought his council and in this capacity he negotiated the peaceful admission of the states Solothurn and Fribourg into the confederacy.
@@Ryan_Winter Actually it's none, simply the head of mountain dweller, a shepherd, as for the Vreneli (gold coin) it bears the head of a shepherdess, nicknamed the Swiss miss (Vreneli being the german form of the name Verena). Basically the coins are Heidi and Peter ;)
It's a silver "Feuflieber", back in the fifties up to the sixties, if I remember correctly, they cast these coins with way too much silver poured into them, surpassing the contemporary value of 5 CHF back then. The metal, the coin was made of, was actually more valuable than the coin's nominal value. People who learned about this melted the coins down and sold the silver for its' actual value, which is why most of them are gone. If you have one, keep it! They have become priced collectables.
sorry, hadn't noticed at first, but your calculation about the value of the silver in this coin is wrong. these coins are made of silver and copper, and both these elements have a different atomic mass, so you'd actualy have to calculate how much of the 15 gramms of the coin is silver, and how much is copper. Since copper and silver don't weigh the same, if we imagine copper as being extremely light and silver extremely heavy, 83,5% of silver could represent 99% of the mass of the coin (example)
i actually live in switzerland, so i see francs everyday xD i went thru my cash and found 10 rappen pieces from 1950 and 1959... do u know if also rappen pieces contained silver?
Guy on the coin is William Tell, and by the way you get close to 6 bucks for that coin today. The dollar has lost 50% of its value over the Franc over the last 10 years.
There is a myth in switzerland that the 5 franc coin before 1970 were made out of silver until the italian mafia bought huge numbers of 5 francs, melted it and sold it back to switzerland, if thats true the coin is worth a lot more not even mentioning the collectible price.
Some of them contain an excessive amount of silver. Keep it. it's way more valuable than its' nominal value suggests. In case you didn't already know that.
Not a boring video. Thanks for doin' the research and for sharin' the coin. Good stuff!
Hi cutlerylover! I'm from Switzerland and the Person on this coin is Wilhelm tell a fictious hero from a story from Schiller (a famous german poet) who fought for the Swiss people and freed them from the Habsburger (an austrian folk) and at the end of the story there's the famous "Rütli-Schwur" (Rütli-Oath) where 3 Cantons (that's someting like a state) stood together and set the base fpr the Swiss-Country (Sorry for bad english! :-))
Great find! REMEMBER TO ALWAYS CHECK YOUR CHANGE
There are pennies out there worth big bucks and most people would never even know if they had one.
Not boring at all. Big fan of the variety of topics and items you feature.. I might have also dismissed a coin like that, now I'll take a few minutes to 'look it up' as you did
Thanks for the video
(looks like the next one is #900 congrats)
the common name for the coin is a "Funfliber" The person pictured on the obverse of the coin is Wilhelm Tell. cool coin. great quality video.
You are very lucky to have so many peopel give you neat things Jeff! haha
Thumbs Up and some Money Love my Friend!
Thanks for the cool video good info u should go around to all the coinstars I have like 20 around me
@pdawg691 Probably non. Quarters are the most widely circulated coin. The best bet would be to get half dollars to search through. But even finding a silver one in hundreds is rare. Silver coins were pulled out of circulation almost 50 years ago. If you live in a small town with an old bank the chances get a little better though, because they might have old rolls of half dollars that were not re-circulated much.
cool coin dude im loving the video quality too
way cool. i wouldnt get rid of it if it were me. looks sweet and i dont have a lot of foreign currency
good video
i always walk by the coin star machines and look for coins. i often find little things but nothing like this
I just like old coins in general. I love to think where was this old coin? Who had it? Stuff like that.
I have some old coins like this in a coin collection I started as a child. I am now going to check them out again :)
The guy on the front is an alp-shepherd, but some people also say he´s Wilhelm Tell, aswiss folk hero.
The B is for Bern - where the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Mint are located. It is also the capital of Switzerland.
Also, 94 cents to the Franc means the Franc is worth less than the dollar. It takes 1.07 Francs to buy 1 US dollar currently, which is the inverse way of expressing the exchange rate.
interesting coin
The "B" on your coin stands for the Bern mint. The flowers on the back are Enzian and Edelweiss. Wild flowers of the Swiss alps
the person represented on the reverse is a shepherd
well even though its 4 in the morning, i like to learn. and about coinstar, i cashed in some change i had, there was a lady using it before me, i was watching it count her qaurters. she had a big popcorn tin full of them. she got 1300 dollars out of quarters. then she started talking to me and said she had about 100 dollars in pennies and the other smaller change before i showed up. thats alot of change. lol
@PoliceWillProtect yeah its an interesting thought...these cna be found on ebay for like $5...
do you know anything about a half dime? we found one with a metal detector on an old town site at first we just thought it was a metal cap and threw it in our bag but when we got home i noticed on the bottom it said 1839!! and above it said half dime.
@WiccaIsGood ahhh that kinda sucks it would have been fun to go through alot of quarters and see what comes out of it :-/, but one day at work like 2 months ago a coworker was trying to get something out of the vending machine and it wouldnt take his dime :-p so i gave him one of mine that wasnt silver. so i got 1 silver dime for $0.10
@pdawg691 if that were for 1960`s and 1970`s back mabe
it's about average 70 centimes to produce the 5 CHF coin copper nickel 15 gram.
That's one neat looking coin, you should thank your friendly banker. :P
i wonder how many silver quarters i would get if i got like $500 worth
@pdawg691 155 90% silver quaters woudl cost you $500 right now...
I have 1933 silver coin 5 fr
@cutlerylover if you knew where to sell these you could make a good profit.
@cutlerylover i was wondering, if i went to the bank and got $500 worth of quarters how many of those would contain silver if any :-p
good info. also the coinstar machines will also kick out silver dimes. I had one that I tried to put in twice and never realized that it was silver until I watched your videos. Found out that 10 cents was worth $1.34 at the time. thanks again for all your videos and info.
@walatalalaw I underestand what your saying, but the coins books represent the same calculations as mentioned I have the silver content info 1st and had to solve the problem backwards to start off...So the silver content is the same perhaps my calulation of "other" base metals is off...
I was hoping you would make a video like this eventually. I'm not very much into precious metals but i've been a coin collector since i was a little kid.
@pdawg691 Ohh, I see...you woudl be lucky to find one of them...but some peopel buy cases of half dollars from the banks to go through and look for silver ones...
3:42 As far as I know this is supposed to be Wilhelm Tell, a fictional person, I'm not sure about his origins, but Friedrich Schiller's play with the same name is about him and about the beginning of the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1291.
If I'm wrong with my assumption and this isn't Wilhelm Tell, then the most reasonable possibility would be Niklaus von Flüe. In that case you would be right with assuming that this is the depiction of a saint, as Niklaus was sanctified after his death. He was important for the confederacy, as a lot of politicians sought his council and in this capacity he negotiated the peaceful admission of the states Solothurn and Fribourg into the confederacy.
@@Ryan_Winter Actually it's none, simply the head of mountain dweller, a shepherd, as for the Vreneli (gold coin) it bears the head of a shepherdess, nicknamed the Swiss miss (Vreneli being the german form of the name Verena). Basically the coins are Heidi and Peter ;)
Love your silver videos Jeff, try and make them more often fella, take care
It's a silver "Feuflieber", back in the fifties up to the sixties, if I remember correctly, they cast these coins with way too much silver poured into them, surpassing the contemporary value of 5 CHF back then. The metal, the coin was made of, was actually more valuable than the coin's nominal value. People who learned about this melted the coins down and sold the silver for its' actual value, which is why most of them are gone. If you have one, keep it! They have become priced collectables.
the coinstar machines also accept half dollar and dollar coins.
And it's Tuesday, June 2, 2020, and guess what is the spot price of silver today? That's right $18.12!! WTF
neato
hey do any canadian coins contain silver?
@walatalalaw it depends if he means 83.5% by volume or 83.5% by weight.
i have a gold canadian nickel from 1985 mint condition
I have 5FR 1995B how much value please...
nices coine love the vide got some old coins from other places there cool
@synysterguitartist7x from what country
I have a 1 Franc coin from 1916
i have a view shilings and florins (old british coins) do you want one they have silver
I have one PC's dis coins 1965
The "B" on your coin stands for the Bern mint.
Tengo unas del 1954, contactame
do you have a cold?
yo tengo una del 1953 plata pesa quince gramo
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sorry, hadn't noticed at first, but your calculation about the value of the silver in this coin is wrong. these coins are made of silver and copper, and both these elements have a different atomic mass, so you'd actualy have to calculate how much of the 15 gramms of the coin is silver, and how much is copper. Since copper and silver don't weigh the same, if we imagine copper as being extremely light and silver extremely heavy, 83,5% of silver could represent 99% of the mass of the coin (example)
the new sony picture is ok, but the audio makes you sound like you have a cold.
$150 of quarters is easy to spend: LAUNDRY for a few months!!! LOL!
i actually live in switzerland, so i see francs everyday xD i went thru my cash and found 10 rappen pieces from 1950 and 1959... do u know if also rappen pieces contained silver?
Some do, if you have one that contains silver you will know it. It shines differently than its' common counterpart.
Dude, you have cool stuff. Also, your videos are great, and I appreciate the great quality of content in each. Thanks man.
its a "Füfliber" ;)
Guy on the coin is William Tell, and by the way you get close to 6 bucks for that coin today. The dollar has lost 50% of its value over the Franc over the last 10 years.
Correct, with both statements.
There is a myth in switzerland that the 5 franc coin before 1970 were made out of silver until the italian mafia bought huge numbers of 5 francs, melted it and sold it back to switzerland, if thats true the coin is worth a lot more not even mentioning the collectible price.
oh and i also have a 50 rappen piece from 1946
Some of them contain an excessive amount of silver. Keep it. it's way more valuable than its' nominal value suggests. In case you didn't already know that.
Hey I wanted to know if your selling or giving it away. I would like to have it.
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lol i thought you were doing the math in your head
I have one piece 1998 B
by the way never sell these to pepole who buy it because its silver because they will destroy the coin
it takes you forever to get to the point. just sayin.