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Sample note - Landqart
| Issuer | Landqart AG, Switzerland |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-2001) |
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| Obverse description | A finely rendered intaglio-style vignette of an Alpine ibex in profile occupies the right-centre of the note, set against a pale green guilloche underprint, with a bold dark vertical band along the right margin. The Landqart corporate logotype and the tagline "swiss · security · solutions" appear at lower right, while the legend "sample note / no value specimen" is printed in green at upper left alongside the year "2003". Multiple ibex-shaped watermark impressions are visible in the blank field at left, demonstrating the paper's security substrate. |
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| Reverse description | The lower portion of the reverse carries a detailed engraved vignette of the Landqart paper mill complex set within a mountainous landscape, rendered in blue-grey line work against a wave-pattern guilloche underprint. At upper centre, a circular optically variable rosette device and the green Landqart leaf logo mark are printed alongside a vertical dashed security thread, while the Landqart logotype and tagline "swiss · security · solutions" are set in the upper-left quadrant. The legends "sample note / no value specimen" and the year "2003" appear in green at the right margin. |
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Landqart AG — the mill in Graubünden that has supplied substrate to the Swiss National Bank since the nineteenth century — periodically produces sample notes to demonstrate new paper formulations and integrated security features to prospective central bank clients. These are trade instruments, not currency, and were never assigned a Pick number or intended for circulation.
Geza Kercho's involvement suggests this sample was aimed at a reasonably sophisticated procurement audience.