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50 Francs 7th series, reserve banknote
| Issuer | Swiss National Bank |
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| Year | 1984-1985 |
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| Value | 50 Francs |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse dominated by a large intaglio vignette of a golden eagle in three-quarter stance at left, its wings spread and plumage rendered in detailed engraved line work over a complex guilloche underprint incorporating stylised animal motifs in tones of red, green, and blue. A large multicolour numeral "50" occupies the right-centre field. Bank titles in French and Italian appear along the upper and lower borders, with printer and copyright imprints at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Konrad Gessner portrait; embedded security thread |
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Switzerland's seventh series was printed in quantity during the early 1980s but held back as a reserve — never formally released into circulation. The SNB maintained large strategic stocks of completed banknotes throughout the Cold War period as a contingency measure, and the entire seventh series ultimately remained in reserve until it was destroyed without ever seeing public use. That makes P#62 a genuinely unusual object: a finished, production-quality note that fulfilled no transactional purpose whatsoever.
Engraving by Pierre Schopfer, working under the Orell Füssli house that has produced Swiss federal notes without interruption since the nineteenth century.