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50 Francs / Franken / Franchi
| Issuer | Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise |
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| Year | 1883-1910 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | LA BANQUE CANTONALE NEUCHÂTELOISE payera à vue, au porteur, CINQUANTE FRANCS en espèces ayant cours légal. NEUCHÂTEL 1er Janvier 1902 Ser. D2 50 |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the reverse carries two large circular medallion vignettes at left and right, each containing a classical female portrait in profile set within concentric guilloche rings. The denomination is rendered in all three Swiss national languages in bold central lettering, flanked by corner panels bearing the numeral 50 within engine-turned decorative frames. |
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The Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise was one of several cantonal banks operating under Switzerland's pre-federal banking patchwork, issuing their own notes before the Swiss National Bank absorbed that function after 1907. This note falls squarely in the transitional window — the SNB opened in 1907, and cantonal note-issuing privileges were wound down progressively, which means later dates within this series were among the final emissions before Neuchâtel's independent circulation rights lapsed.
The trilingual denomination line — Francs, Franken, Franchi — reflects the constitutional requirement to acknowledge all three of Switzerland's major language communities, not any particular circulation geography for this note.