Sculptures at the national exhibition in Switzerland in 1939.

So here we have the Swiss franc, nominal - 5. The year of issue of this coin is 1939, mint: Bern, Switzerland. Total circulation – 60.000. The coin is dedicated to the national exhibition in Switzerland in 1939 in Zurich.

One of the most popular figures was created by Otto Charles Banninger, who exhibited the plaster sculpture «Boy and Horse». Only their photographs have survived, the horse’s body was destroyed, and the boy is in the possession of the city of Zurich. On the 5.80-meter sculpture «Wehrbereitschaft» Hans Brandenberger made of plaster in the section «Wehrwille» on Höhenstrasse is a person who slides on the coat and thus embodies the will to freedom. The sculpture "The Girl with Raised Hands", created by Zurich sculptor Herman Haller for the national exhibition in 1939, still stands on Landiviz. Sybil Tobler