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100 Francs 8th series
| Issuer | Swiss National Bank |
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| Year | 1996-2014 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Vertical format reverse in tones consistent with the obverse, bearing a bronze bust of Lotar II at the top and a repeated vignette of Giacometti's sculpture Homme qui marche I at center. A schematic diagram illustrating a time-space relationship concept appears at lower center, accompanied by handwritten text excerpts associated with Giacometti's writings. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Alberto Giacometti. |
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The 8th series was the SNB's most security-conscious issue up to that point, developed partly in response to advances in desktop publishing and colour photocopying during the late 1980s. Zintzmeyer's designs for the full series are among the more conceptually coherent in Swiss banknote history, each note built around a single cultural figure rather than the landscape-and-institution vocabulary common elsewhere in Europe.
The signature combinations make date attribution unusually precise — 29 documented pairings across an 18-year print run. Phillipp Hildebrand's name appears from 2004 onward, years before his SNB chairmanship and the franc crisis of 2011.