Catalog
100 Francs
| Issuer | Ersparniss-Cassa des Kantons Uri |
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| Year | 1878 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | ERSPARNISS-CASSA 100 100 DES KANTONS URI Leipzig, Giesecke & Devrient, Typ. Inst. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Ersparniss-Cassa des Kantons Uri was the cantonal savings institution of Uri, one of Switzerland's smallest and most rural cantons — historically significant as one of the three original forest cantons of the 1291 confederacy, but economically modest. That a savings bank of this scale was commissioning notes from Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig rather than a Swiss printer reflects the firm's dominance of the central European security printing market in the 1870s.
Swiss cantonal and private bank issues from this period were rapidly rendered obsolete by federalization of the currency system under the Swiss National Bank's precursor legislation, making survivors rare almost by design.