Swiss 1960s Specimen coins

coinkat

How tough are these? Any thoughts would be appreciated

bidask

I have not seen many of those in that decade but have noticed plenty in the 40's and 50's.

MacCrimmon

Tough?

The silver coinage (1/2, 1, 2, & 5 franc) are not that difficult to find in gem specimen condition. The going retail for these silver pieces runs around $25 - $70.

The cu-ni, and nickel coinage (5, 10, 20 rappen) are less seen, but I've never found any real demand for them either. The 1953 coinage are more often seen, but again, no real big premiums, per se.

Now if you cherry-pick ultra 68-69 coins, you may well realize over $100 per coin, but you may also spend the extra $30 or so for a coin which is truly SP69 (i.e. perfect under a scanning electron microscope), and the TPGs will only grade it SP67.

P.S. most 60s specimen coins are probably in OGH holders, unless someone's been very active lately.

SYRACUSIAN

The 1953 coinage are more often seen, but again, no real big premiums, per se.


And I had an out of this world 1953 specimen 20R PCGS SP66 I think, ,probably ex-Mac, with the most beautiful colours despite the metal composition,and a serious premium because of the colours, but it's gone to another nest. 1960s, no, I haven't seen specimens at all, except in dealer's lists.

cladking

How can specimen coins be identified.

It seems the bulk of the of the issues after 1961 or so are almost like proofs. At least this
applies to almost all the mint set coins and most of what people set aside.