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10 Franken
| Issuer | Toggenburger Bank, Lichtensteig |
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| Year | 1865-1881 |
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| Currency | Frank (1850-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Toggenburger Bank in LICHTENSTEIG zahlt gegen diesen CASSENSCHEIN ZEHN FRANKEN LICHTENSTEIG Serie: No Der Cassier: Der Präsident: Der Director: |
| Reverse description | No reverse image is available for this note; description cannot be provided. |
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The Toggenburger Bank was one of dozens of Swiss cantonal and private note-issuing banks that operated under the decentralized regime predating the Swiss National Bank's founding in 1907. Lichtensteig is a small market town in the Toggenburg valley of St. Gallen canton — not a financial center by any measure — which makes the bank's note-issuing activity a direct product of Switzerland's unusually permissive pre-federal banking environment, where even modest regional institutions could circulate their own paper.
The long issue window spanning nearly two decades suggests serial reissue rather than a single print run. When the Swiss federal government moved to consolidate note issue in the 1880s, banks like the Toggenburger were wound down or absorbed, and most of their circulating notes were redeemed and pulped.