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50 Francs
| Issuer | Kantonalbank Schwyz |
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| Year | 1890-1906 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a standing allegorical female figure at left, draped in classical robes and resting one arm upon a shield, flanked by a seated putto at lower right within an elaborate guilloche border. The central text panel carries the issuing bank name and denomination in bold letterpress, with serial numbers in red and the place and date of issue printed below. A panel number is visible in the upper right corner within a decorative cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 CINQUANTE FRANCS FÜNFZIG FRANKEN CINQUANTA FRANCHI 50 50 |
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The Kantonalbank Schwyz was one of the smaller Swiss cantonal banks issuing private currency under the note-issuing regime that predated the Swiss National Bank's monopoly, established in 1907. This series runs right up to that transition — the bank would have surrendered its issuing rights when the SNB took over, making these among the last notes the institution ever produced.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled an enormous volume of Swiss cantonal and private bank work during this period, and the Storck-Walch design credit is worth noting: Joseph Storck was a Vienna-based professor of decorative arts whose design work appeared across several central European printing commissions in the late nineteenth century, an unusual choice for a small inland Swiss canton.