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500 Francs 1st series
| Issuer | Schweizerische Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Size | 199 × 126 mm |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in green on paper with an elaborate guilloche border, the outer frame carries a repeating trilingual denomination legend in three languages. At left stands a large allegorical female figure in classical drapery rendered in three-quarter view and holding a staff, while a putto vignette occupies a decorative cartouche at lower right. The central text panel bears the bank name in German, French, and Italian, the statutory law reference, the denomination in bold letterpress, the date "BERN & ZÜRICH, 1. FEBRUAR 1907", and three manuscript signature lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 SCHWEIZERISCHE NATIONALBANK BANQUE NATIONALE SUISSE • BANCA NAZIONALE SVIZZERA (GESETZ VOM 6. OKTOBER 1905) FÜNFHUNDERT FRANKEN CINQ CENTS FRANCS • CINQUE CENTO FRANCHI 500 BERN & ZÜRICH, 1. FEBRUAR 1907 DER PRÄSIDENT DES BANKRATES: DER HAUPTKASSIER: EIN MITGLIED DES DIREKTORIUMS: 500 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO LONDRES. |
| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green over a dense engine-turned guilloche underprint, the reverse centres on a large oval cartouche bearing the trilingual denomination legends, encircled by repeating numeral "500" counters. Two circular medallion vignettes flank the central oval, each enclosing a left-facing classical female portrait bust within an engine-turned ring of denomination numerals. Rectangular "500" panels occupy each corner, and the full field is enclosed by a fine guilloche border with the denomination repeated in the outer legend band. |
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