Ten centimes piece

Ten centimes piece
Data
Alloy:	75% copper 25% nickel
Weight:	3.00 g
Diameter:	19.15 mm
Thickness:	1.45 mm
Edge embossing:	smooth

The ten rappen piece (also Zehnräppler ; in dialect Zahni , Zahner (left) , Zehner (left) ; outdated also Batzen ) belongs to the Swiss currency and has the value of one tenth of a franc = 10 cents .

The coin was first minted in 1850, from billon with a silver content of ten percent. Since 1879 it has been minted with its current appearance and with the current alloy ( copper-nickel ). In the world, none of the current coins is even remotely similar in age. In the meantime, however, there were also ten centime coins made of brass (1918–1919) and pure nickel (1932–1939). The pure nickel pieces were taken out of circulation in 2004 because they are not accepted by many coin-operated machines.

The motif on the front shows the coin value (without currency unit) framed by a wreath of oak leaves , which was designed by the royal Württemberg court medalist Karl Schwenzer . The back was designed by Carl Friedrich Voigt and shows a Libertas head (often misinterpreted as Helvetia ).

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  10 centimes piece from 1850 made of billon

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  10 centimes piece from 1879, cupronickel, oldest current coin valid today

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  10 centimes coin from 1932, nickel, out of circulation since 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Technical data of the Swiss coins in circulation. Federal Mint Swissmint , December 2017, accessed on April 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Minting of Swiss coins from 1850 onwards. Eidgenössische Münzstätte Swissmint , 2018, p. 6 , accessed on April 13, 2018 .