The Swiss are rarely late. But a new series of bank notes has been in the making since 2010. The new Swiss franc notes are finally being released, starting with the 50-franc bill rolled out earlier ...

Using three layer substrate Durasafe® technology, the bright green vertical banknote depicts dandelion ... and enter circulation a week later. Every Swiss citizen has a Heimatort, a place of ...

With the opening of the five branches of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in Basel, Bern, Geneva, St. Gallen and Zurich on 20 June 1907, the banknote monopoly came into force. The short time between the ...

Unusually, Swiss banknotes have a vertical orientation. They are printed in the four national languages: German, French, Italian and Romansch. The 10-centimes coins minted in 1879 are the oldest ...