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The obverse presents a wide-format note divided into a left stub and a main body, both printed by intaglio on aged laid paper. The main body is enclosed within an elaborate ornamental border of interlocking guilloche scrollwork and foliate cornerpieces, with the bank title BANQUE DE GENÈVE and creation date Création du 1er Septembre 1848 printed in letterpress above the central text panel. The denomination cent francs appears in large display script at centre, flanked by oval vignettes bearing the anti-counterfeiting warning, with the numeral 100 in a decorative cartouche at lower right and three signature lines for L'Administrateur, le Censeur, and le Directeur. |
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BANQUE DE GENÈVE. BILLET DE CENT FRANCS. CRÉATION DU 1er SEPTEMBRE 1848 Emission du Noms des Signataires Administrateur Censeur Directeur Annule le BANQUE DE GENÈVE. Création du 1er Septembre 1848. IL SERA PAYÉ EN ESPÈCES, A VUE, AU PORTEUR cent francs. LA LOI PUNIT LE CONTREFACTEUR DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS L'Administrateur, le Censeur, le Directeur, 100 Auguste Bovet |
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The Banque de Genève was a private cantonal bank operating in a period when Swiss banking law was fragmented — each canton effectively ran its own monetary system, and federal currency unification didn't arrive until 1850 with the Swiss Federal Constitution's provisions for a national currency framework. This note predates that consolidation by two years, making it a product of the last phase of Swiss private banknote pluralism.
Giesecke & Devrient, then still building their international reputation as a security printer, produced the plates in Leipzig. Engraver Auguste Bovet is a Geneva-connected name in the early Swiss engraving trade, though his association here with a Leipzig house reflects the common practice of contracting local talent to a foreign press.