Catalog
50 Franken / Francs / Franchi
| Issuer | Schweizerische Nationalbank / Banque Nationale Suisse / Banca Nazionale Svizzera / Banca Naziunala Svizra |
|---|---|
| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SCHWEIZERISCHE NATIONALBANK BANCA NAZIUNALA SVIZRA Fünfzig Franken Tschuncanta Francs Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1889–1943 SNB 50 |
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| Protection description | the Swiss cross visible in the upper left corner; embedded metallic security thread with microprinting running vertically through the note; latent image element formed by multicoloured concentric spiral design on the reverse. |
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Switzerland's seventh banknote series was unusually long in development — design work began in the late 1970s, and the 50 Franken denomination didn't enter circulation until 1994, over a decade after some denominations in the same series had already been issued. The delay reflected the SNB's exceptionally cautious approach to series rollout, releasing individual denominations only when security and supply conditions were fully satisfied.
Jörg Zintzmeyer, a Basel-based graphic designer, was responsible for the series concept. Orell Füssli has printed Swiss banknotes continuously since the nineteenth century, making it one of the longest-running relationships between a national bank and a single security printer in Europe.