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100 Francs 7th series, reserve banknote
| Issuer | Swiss National Bank |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Violet-blue and multicolour intaglio print with a portrait vignette of architect Francesco Borromini at right, accompanied by an architectural motif at centre rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination numeral '100' appears at multiple positions within a complex guilloche underprint, with the bank title inscribed in all four Swiss national languages across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 Cent Francs Le président du Conseil Un membre de la Direction générale Francesco Boromini 1599-1667 100 100 Banque Nationale Suisse 100 Banca Nazionale Svizzera 100 Cento Franchi |
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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.