SINCONA Auction 25
Numismatic Rarities
Bid
| Starting price | 15,000 CHF |
| Result |
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Description
Reservebanknoten Draft or pattern for 100 Francs 1976. Obverse: Picture of Francesco Boromini to right, on right, graphic façade motifs and value framed with name of the bank in three languages. Left in section, code for the blind, name and birth/death dates of the architect Boromini, signatures and a plastified strip. Exterior view of the Church San Ivo in Rome over ground plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and value. On exterior the bank name in three languages. In a section the name of the artist couples R+E Pfund / © Banque Nationale Suisse / Orell Füssli Arts Graphiques S. A. Zürich. Watermark and coloured paper fibre visible on both sides. 5.00 g. De Rivaz -. Cf. Richter/Kunzmann RS12. Up to today wholly unknown. Of highest rarity. Unique. I. Uncirculated.
Details
Up to the 7th emission the Swiss National Bank kept a bank note series in reserve, in case that a large amount of forgeries should appear in circulation. For the present 8th series such a measure was not taken.
The graphic artist couple Pfund had received the first prize for their draft of the realisation of the 7th emission. Nevertheless, the second prize, by the artist couple Hiestand, was selected for the final bank note issue. The conception by Pfund was used as basis for the reserve series. Such a series apparently also had to go through several preliminary stages that were apparently also printed on original paper. The present specimen shows the year 1976 (readable as the first two numbers of the serial number). The final printing of the reserve series took place in 1985. In the meantime some details were changed as can be seen by comparing the illustration of the final reserve bank note.