Switzerland 2018 500 francs
This specimen was lot 1864 in Sincona Auction 103 (Zürich, May 2026), where it sold for 1,500 CHF (about US$2,286 including buyers' fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"SCHWEIZ Schützentaler, Schützenmedaillen & Schützenvaria, Nidwalden, 500 Franken 2018, München. Stans. Winkelried-Schiessen. Selten. Nur 275 Exemplare geprägt. Eines der durch NGC höchstbewerteten Exemplare. (Switzerland, shooting thalers, 500 francs, Munich mint, for the Nidwalden shooting festival. Rare. Only 275 specimens struck. NGC PF70 ULTRA CAMEO. One of the finest certified by NGC.)"
This NCLT was privately issued for the Nidwalden shooting festival. Shooting festival medals/coins are a Swiss tradition going back before confederation in 1848. The early ones (before World War One) were struck to the standard of a silver five francs and circulated as such even tho they bore no denomination. Later ones are strictly collector items with no face value and should be classed as medals, not coins. They are not listed in the regular SCWC. Many are accompanied by a silver fifty francs.
Recorded mintage: 275 proofs.
Specification: 0.999 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM unlisted, Häberling 100a.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Richter, Jürg, Michael Hardmeier, Michael Otto, Arne Kirsch, Ruedi Kunzmann and Timur Demirai, SINCONA Auction 103: World and Swiss coins and medals, Zürich: SINCONA AG, 2026.
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