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100 Francs Messias
| Issuer | Swiss Confederation |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Thickness | 2.60 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central motif depicting a stylized, swaddled infant Christ (the Messiah) rendered in a highly abstracted, sculptural style, lying horizontally with the head oriented to the right. The figure occupies the center of the field and is encircled by the Latin legend 'ANNO DOMINI JESU CHRISTI · 2000 ·' arranged along the full circumference of the coin, separated by two raised dots. |
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| Reverse lettering | ANNO DOMINI JESU CHRISTI · 2000 · |
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Issued as part of Switzerland's millennium commemorative program, this piece draws on the longstanding Swiss tradition of gold federal shooting festival francs — a series that began in 1855 and occupies a distinct and obsessively catalogued corner of Helvetic numismatics. The "Messias" designation refers to Handel's oratorio, performed at celebratory events marking the year 2000.
The .900 fine standard mirrors the fineness used across the nineteenth-century Latin Monetary Union coinage, a deliberate continuity Switzerland maintained long after the LMU's 1927 dissolution.