Coin: cupronickel 5 centime

Museum number:
7-6249
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2970
Description:
Coin, cupro-nickel (?); diameter: 17.2 mm; weight 1.62 g. Obverse: shield with cross motif; below: 1873; above: HELVETIA. Reverse: wreath: within, "5".
Donor:
Newton Henry Neustadter Jr. and Roberta Elliot Neustadter
Collection place:
Switzerland
Verbatim coll. place:
Switzerland, Helvetian Confederacy, 1873
Culture or time period:
Swiss
Collector:
Newton Henry Neustadter Jr.
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cupro-nickel
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1873
Accession date:
1973
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Coin: cupronickel 5 centime, accession number 7-6249, described as Coin, cupro-nickel (?); diameter: 17.2 mm; weight 1.62 g. Obverse: shield with cross motif; below: 1873; above: HELVETIA. Reverse: wreath: within, "5".Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Coin: cupronickel 5 centime, accession number 7-6249, described as Coin, cupro-nickel (?); diameter: 17.2 mm; weight 1.62 g. Obverse: shield with cross motif; below: 1873; above: HELVETIA. Reverse: wreath: within, "5".Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Coin: cupronickel 5 centime, accession number 7-6249, described as Coin, cupro-nickel (?); diameter: 17.2 mm; weight 1.62 g. Obverse: shield with cross motif; below: 1873; above: HELVETIA. Reverse: wreath: within, "5".Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Coin: cupronickel 5 centime, accession number 7-6249, described as Coin, cupro-nickel (?); diameter: 17.2 mm; weight 1.62 g. Obverse: shield with cross motif; below: 1873; above: HELVETIA. Reverse: wreath: within, "5".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: cupronickel 5 centime, accession number 7-6249, described as Coin, cupro-nickel (?); diameter: 17.2 mm; weight 1.62 g. Obverse: shield with cross motif; below: 1873; above: HELVETIA. Reverse: wreath: within, "5".

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