hello people here going today I just want to make a video about the coinage
of the canton of Geneva if some of you don't know Geneva is in Switzerland the
actual city is in the canton of geneva and i'll show you all map so you can see
which our neighbor is here and it is also one of the two cities along with
New York where the United Nations sits and also has lots of important worldwide
institutions not only that it's also the place where the Large Hadron Collider is
located and if you don't know what that is that's where particle physics does a
lot of experiments like the most famous one is the experiment to find the Higgs
boson and the Higgs boson is just the fundamental particle it gives all
particles mess you should read about it's quite interesting as you can see
the one centimeter the four centimeters and in between Esther should be two
centimeters which I do not have news 5 centimeters 10 and 25 centimeters now
this is the decimal coinage that was issued in nineteen I'm sorry 1837 and as
you can see here this one here is the first design she'd 1937 this is second
design initiative 1847 1837 1847 okay and these all billion coins you don't
know a billion coins they just coinage with a silver content of less than
twenty percent but that is just a mythological term and it's not actually
have any scientific basis whatever okay up here we have two coins one of one
soul another one of six Souls and this is a coin of valid but if you don't know
before 1850 when a Swiss franc came into circulation a lot of the Swiss cantons
and cities and ever identities issued their own coins but a majority of the
silver and gold coins would have been foreign as silver and gold doesn't
matter what coin it would have been as long as it was of good value would have
been weighed and any trade market in any city in the world and accepted for its
silver and gold weight that is true from Australia to Africa through North
America to Hong Kong Japan anyway I could take coin from Japan and take it
to Switzerland here the way it courage to a test to see the density and all
that stuff and they would have accepted it as a civil white in coin in some
cities they allow you to the Mughals they allow you to take silver ever boy
you're not ever coins and get it minted into the local coinage okay the
inscription the inscription says republic at canton d Geneva just means
public of the canton of Geneva that's basically it and if you don't know the
actual language they speak in Geneva is French but I've read that Germany is
some sneaking up into the area and expanding its influence in Switzerland
at the expense of all the other languages have some rough information
here so into foot in 59 with a venir then need talos issued from then don't
know Tyler was actually a bohemian coin that was accepted in a lot of North
German states but the tub would have been accepted all over Europe is in its
silver value businessman a popular in Russia and the North German states okay
to swiss franc was issued in 1950 and the french frankerz issued in 1839
that's wrong date 1939
okay and same here this should be 1839 1846 and 1847 okay this is a conversion
one tala equals 12 and 24 florins or two souls of 12 10 years yeah I got that off
Wikipedia I'm gonna be suspicious all that okay and the Geneva Frank was equal
to one Swiss franc which was equal to one french franc okay here i have the
reverses and as you can see this is the first reverse in the second reverse
actually has a proper coat of arms of geneva this one is like more of a
stylized one in description post in a brass looks if you see up here that
means light after darkness and it was a motto of the Calvinists Christians
somewhere around fifteen hundreds it was adopted and if you look up the top up
here you see since I hate s which represents Jesus homonyms Salvador
Salvatore
okay that's what that means and it's just an honor of Jesus you have to
remember the Latins pronounce or Die work the J isn't I Jesus as a Latin I
don't think they had giant in their alphabet okay and as you can see there's
a eagle the crown on its head and the key if you want any more information of
the coat of arms of Geneva just look it up on wikipedia has a good explanation
okay in all days of the same also an older coinage the reverse is pretty much
the same so you can get a better one of the six songs they pretty one and
there's a kind of arms of the cantonal valid head and these inscriptions were
in Latin because machine I the language of Christianity back things lettin and
unlike now which they adopt the language of the local inhabitant okay so it's my
little presentation on Geneva coins and had a bloody read the bastards so please
like and subscribe to my channel and leave a comment about your experience
with a Swiss coins and swiss canton coins okay thank you very much and have
a nice day
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