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500 Francs 5th series, type 2
| Issuer | Swiss National Bank |
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| Year | 1961-1974 |
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| Value | 500 Francs (500 CHF) |
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| Obverse description | Brown-orange and olive tones on a multicolour underprint. A female figure in three-quarter profile is shown at right, gazing into a hand mirror, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The denomination numeral 500 appears at multiple positions framing the vignette, with the trilingual bank title and signatory panel below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on a cream ground with a repeating 'NBS' letterpress underprint. The central intaglio vignette illustrates the Fountain of Youth allegory: two elderly figures and four young women bathing in or attending a wooden tub at centre, surrounded by hares and flowering plants in a meadow setting. A decorative panel at left carries the trilingual bank title in ornate calligraphic script interwoven with guilloche work and the repeated denomination 500. |
| Reverse lettering | Schweizerische Nationalbank Banque Nationale Suisse Banca Nazionale Svizzera 500 |
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