50 Francs

Emittent	Spar- & Leih-Cassa des Kantons Luzern
Jahr	1876-1878
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Währung	Franc (1857-1906)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung	The centre of the note carries the bank name and value in monogram form within an elaborate typographic arrangement. To the left, a female head vignette is set above a panoramic city view, while to the right a portrait of William Tell appears above a corresponding urban vignette. The lower centre presents the celebrated Lion Monument of Lucerne flanked on either side by the serial number, with the denomination numeral 50 repeated at the outer corners.
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Anmerkungen	The Spar- & Leih-Cassa des Kantons Luzern was a cantonal savings and loan institution, not a central bank — its note-issuing activity was a Swiss federal peculiarity that survived only until the Nationalbank consolidation era swept away such regional privileges. Bradbury Wilkinson engraved and printed for dozens of institutions across Europe and the colonies, and their work for smaller Swiss cantonal issuers like this one represents a brief, commercially pragmatic arrangement before Swiss note issue was rationalized at the federal level. The two-year issue window is narrow enough that surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.