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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque du Commerce, Geneva |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1906) |
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| Obverse description | Intricate letterpress design enclosed within an ornate oval guilloche border with scrollwork corner pieces and two oval cartouches bearing the series letter and serial number. At the top centre, a crowned heraldic vignette with sunburst radiates above the bank title BANQUE DU COMMERCE; at the lower centre, a small industrial vignette shows a steamship and machinery within a decorative frame. A large guilloché underprint numeral 100 fills the centre field behind the denomination text CENT FRANCS, flanked by a circular counterfoil seal at left bearing the forgery warning and a circular bank stamp at right reading BANQUE DU COMMERCE GENÈVE; three manuscript signatures appear below the creation date. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper stock with a large central guilloché panel in orange-gold tones enclosing the bold numeral 100 in ornate interlocking figures, all set within an elongated lozenge-shaped frame. The field surrounding the central panel carries a faint all-over wave-pattern underprint in pale blue-grey. A small ink circular cancellation stamp of the Canton de Genève appears in the upper right corner, and the printer's imprint is set in small roman type at the lower centre margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 Leipzig, Giesecke & Devrient. |
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