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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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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Franken Der Präsident des Bankrates Ein Mitglied des Direktoriums Konrad Gessner 1516-1565 50 50 Schweizerische Nationalbank 50 Banca Naziunala Svizra 50 Tschuncanta Francs |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Cinquanta Franchi Banque Nationale Suisse 50 Banca Nazionale Svizzera 50 50 R+E Pfund © Banque Nationale Suisse Orell Füssli Arts Graphiques SA Zurich 50 Cinquante Francs |
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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.