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Green intaglio-printed note with a classical allegorical female figure standing at left, draped in robes and holding a staff, balanced by a cherub vignette at lower right within an ornate scrollwork border. The central text panel carries the bank name and denomination in bold letterpress, with the date AARAU 1. Januar 1906 printed below, flanked by red serial number and series overprints. The denomination numeral 50 appears in guilloche cartouches at upper center, upper right, and lower center, framing the composition symmetrically. |
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The reverse is printed in green on a brown-toned paper ground, dominated by two large circular guilloche medallions at left and center, each enclosing a classical portrait head in profile. The three trilingual denomination inscriptions are arranged horizontally across the central field, surrounded by an elaborate repeating border of interlocking numerals 50. Four corner cartouches, also containing the numeral 50, reinforce the denomination at each angle of the note. |
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The Aargauische Bank was one of Switzerland's cantonal note-issuing institutions operating under the decentralized monetary system that persisted until the Swiss National Bank's founding in 1907. This note was issued during the final years of that plural system, when over thirty Swiss banks still held the right to issue their own paper currency — a situation that created real interoperability headaches and fueled the political push for consolidation.
Joseph Storck was a Vienna-based professor of decorative arts; his involvement here is unusual and suggests the bank commissioned designs with deliberate ornamental ambition. Albert Walch's collaboration on the obverse points to a division of labor between concept and execution that was common in high-end Austrian and German printing circles of the period.