Is this a French coin? (solved)

[olivuur]

Found this one on the beach after a heavy blow. need some help ID'ing it please. I searched here, http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/France_all2.php and here, http://www.joelscoins.com/map.htm
but no help

 

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[mts]

Re: Is this a French coin?

It's swiss.

 

[mts]

Re: Is this a French coin?

More specifically, this one:

http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine.php?image=img3/172-23a_1&desc=Switzerland km23a.1 1/2 Franc (1968-1981) coin alignment&query=(Switzerland, Swiss) km 23a.1

 

[olivuur]

Re: Is this a French coin?

ahhh, see? i knew where to come for the right help

thank you kind sir

 

[mts]

No problem. I bought a bag of 500 foreign coins for $30 recently at a show and ended up spending about 8 hours ID'ing them all. Talk about a pain! I got about 95% of them just from the markings but ended up scouring the pictures at World Coin Gallery for hours trying to ID the last few.