Gold Coins of Switzerland

Swiss 20 Francs

20 Francs Types

Vreneli

Vreneli, Vrenelli or Helvetia Head coins were issued from 1897 until 1949, with some exceptions. Coins produced after 1936 are all restrikes.

The coin obverse features a female head with plaited hair, a garland of flowers (edelweiss?), with mountains behind, and the inscription HELVETIA above.

The reverse has a swiss cross on a more ornate shield superimposed on an oak branch with ribbons. The value 20 FR appears at the sides of the shield, and the date below. This type was issued from 1897 to 1935, then again in 1947 and 1949. The model for the portrait was Francoise Engli.

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Switzerland 20 Francs Dates Available

The following coins were all minted in Bern.

Date	Grade	Mintage	Price £	Buy
1900	Uncirculated	400,000	£0.00
1902	Uncirculated	600,000	£0.00
1904	Uncirculated	100,000	£0.00
1906	Uncirculated	100,000	£0.00
1908	Uncirculated	355,000	£0.00
1909	Uncirculated	400,000	£0.00
1910	Uncirculated	375,000	£0.00
1901	Uncirculated	350,000	£0.00
1912	Uncirculated	450,000	£0.00
1913	Uncirculated	700,000	£0.00
1914	Uncirculated	700,000	£0.00
1915	Uncirculated	750,000	£0.00
1916	Uncirculated	300,000	£0.00
1922	Uncirculated	2,783,678	£0.00
1926	Uncirculated	50,000	£0.00	Call to check availability
1927	Uncirculated	5,015,000	£0.00
1930	Uncirculated	3,371,764	£0.00
1935	Uncirculated	175,000	£0.00
1947	Uncirculated	9,200,000	£0.00
1949	Uncirculated	10,000,000	£0.00

Vreneli or Vrenelli?

Of course, the correct spelling for this coin, and name, is Vreneli not Vrenelli, so why do we give the correct and the incorrect spellings? When we first created this page, we got it wrong. Not being German speakers, and having no friends called Vreneli, we simply failed to consider that there should only be one "L" not two; you may notice that the name of this page includes the incorrect spelling. At some stage, we noticed our error and corrected it in most places. You may wonder why we keep the incorrect spelling also. It's mainly for findability. If we got it wrong, there must be many others who also mis-spell this name. It helps search engines and real people to retain both spellings. When we added this paragraph there were about 9,380 Google results for Vrenelli, and about 56,300 for Vreneli. Although this means that most people would find our pages, up to 17% may not find our pages. As we have also taken the time and effort to state the correct spelling, we hope at least a few people will find our pages and information useful.
We are grateful to Verena (Vreni) Welser of Switzerland for pointing out that we had not corrected the error on all relevant pages. We also did not realise that Vreni itself was short for Verena. Of course we are familiar with the name Vreni Schneider the world famous Swiss skier, but again did not realise until we came to write this, that her actual name is also Verena. We learn something every day!

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