Swiss 20 Ducat

After thirty years of turning over coins, the most intriguing fact about what's purportedly a Swiss 20 Ducat from 1925-1936 is that it might not exist under that name at all. Switzerland issued gold coins during those years, specifically the 20 Swiss Francs, which were struck in .900 fine gold and weighed about 6.45 grams each, serving as standard currency rather than any ducat tradition.

I'm not convinced the "20 Ducat" label holds up; ducats were more common in places like the Netherlands or Austria, and Swiss mints didn't typically use that terminology. Records for exact mintages are patchy—some years' data could have been lost or never kept—so I won't speculate on numbers. If this is a confusion with the 20 Franc gold piece, it's a straightforward bullion coin, plain and functional, without the embellished stories that circulate.

Perhaps the real curiosity is how such mix-ups persist in numismatics.