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SINCONA Lake View Collection · Texts and contexts IX / Two weeks after the Confederates had surrendered in the American Civil War, American sharpshooters of Swiss descent competed under the Stars and Stripes at Switzerland’s Federal Shooting Festival in Schaffhausen.

SINCONA Lake View Collection · Texts and contexts VIII / In 1894, the French engineer Froment established a joint-stock company. Named the Société Suisse Mines d’Or de Gondo SA, it was to begin gold mining with a starting capital of five million Swiss Francs…

SINCONA Lake View Collection · Texts and contexts VII / On the political and global economic circumstances surrounding the 20-Franc Durussel specimen from 1871 (Lot 2071 of the SINCONA Auction 108 on October 27, 2026).

SINCONA Lake View Collection · Texts and contexts VI / Ursula Kampmann follows the emergence of modern Switzerland – and with it, the Swiss Franc – from the Napoleonic Wars through to the 20th century.

SINCONA Lake View Collection · Texts and contexts V / Each constituent part of the Old Swiss Confederacy was an independent small state. This resulted in a rich and particularly fascinating variety of coin designs.  

SINCONA Lake View Collection · Texts and contexts IV / Two celebrations coincided at Fischingen Abbey in 1726: the 50th anniversary of Abbot Franz Troger’s ordination to the priesthood and the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Ida.