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20 Francs Max Frisch, trial
| Issuer | Swiss Federal Mint (Swissmint) |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Weight | 20.00 g |
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| Reverse description | Right-facing bust portrait of Swiss author Max Frisch, depicted wearing spectacles and smoking a pipe, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The artist's engraver signature 'D. FRANK' appears at the lower right. A circular legend encompassing the subject's name and life dates runs along the periphery. |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Trial pieces from Swissmint's commemorative program rarely surface in trade — they exist to test die alignment, edge tooling, and planchet behavior before authorized mintage begins, and most are destroyed or retained internally. This example honors Max Frisch, the Zurich-born novelist and playwright whose Homo Faber and Stiller earned him a place among the defining German-language writers of the postwar decades. The 2011 issue marked the centenary of his birth.
The HMZ and Richt references confirm trial status, distinguishing it sharply from the circulating commemorative.