Definition

• A silver coin of Switzerland, struck in Luzerne, Schwyz, and other cantons, and the counterpart of the French Franc. Its usual divisions were one hundred Rappen.

  In the recent Belgium coinage those pieces that have Flemish legends have the spelling Frank instead of Franc.

  In the Napoleonic kingdom of Westphalia gold coins of five, ten, twenty, and forty Franken were issued from 1809 to 1813.

  This spelling occurs on the recent issues of paper money for Switzerland as well as the word Franc, the French equivalent. The note in question bears the triple inscription, CINQ FRANCS, FUNF FRANKEN, CINQUE FRANCHI.

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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