Roger Federer's witty tweet after Swiss coin honour breaks the internet

Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer became first living person to be celebrated on a coin in country on Tuesday. Federal Mint i.e. Swissmint will release a 20 Swiss francs silver commemorative coin in January 2020. It also has plans to d a Federer SFr50 gold coin in May. 20-time Grand Slam champion posted a tweet yesterday replying to Switzerland tourism. His country’s tourism Twitter handle congratulated him for coin. Meanwhile, Federer gave a witty reply, writing feds or tails. One of sides of coin has Federer’s face on it.

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Swissmint website crashes

However, many of Federer's fans were unable to buy commemorative Federer coin that was anunced yesterday.  Swissmint CEO Marius Haldimann said that re has been such a massive demand for it, which led to crashing of official website. event shows Federer's immense popularity and respect he commands from fans across globe.

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Roger Federer's tweet ds fuel to fire

Haldimann stated that website h 2.5 million s and it was too much for shop to handle. He said that he expected demand and planned accordingly, but he never imagined it to be this big. Haldimann ded that as soon as 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer posted a link on his social media channels, it led to immediate traffic on website, creating more problems. Haldimann stated that some fans couldn’t access shop but could t finish ir order while some h trouble getting onto website.

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35,000 20-franc silver coins were offered in pre-sale window on website, and 15,000 of m are alrey sold. remaining coins from this initial run are expected to return to sale as soon as site is back to functionality. Also, ditional 40,000 coins are meant to be released in May, when a 50-franc gold coin will also be released.