Catalog
100 Francs 7th series, reserve banknote
| Issuer | Swiss National Bank |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Size | 170 × 78 mm |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour design centred on a large bold denomination numeral '100' in green and red, overlaid on a detailed intaglio vignette of the interior architectural structure and tower of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome, rendered in blue-violet line engraving at left. An abstract geometric medallion in red, green and blue occupies the right portion of the note, with the bank title in German and Romansh flanking the composition, and printer and copyright inscriptions at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 Tschent Francs Schweizerische Nationalbank 100 Banca Naziunala Svizra 100 100 R+E Pfund © Banque Nationale Suisse Orell Füssli Arts Graphiques SA Zurich 100 Hundert Franken |
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The "reserve banknote" designation is not a marketing distinction — it reflects Swiss National Bank policy of printing and stockpiling notes well in advance of release, sometimes holding series in reserve for years before any entered circulation. The 7th series was designed in the 1970s and remained in use until the mid-1990s, an unusually long operational window even by Swiss standards.
Roger and Elisabeth Pfund's involvement marked one of the few times a husband-and-wife design team produced an entire Swiss banknote series. Pierre Schopfer's intaglio engraving work for Orell Füssli on this series is considered among the more technically demanding of the postwar decades.