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100 Francs
| Issuer | Crédit Gruyérien à Bulle |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on a fine guilloche ground covering the full surface, with a central cartouche framed by elaborate scrollwork and supported by two seated putti holding ribbon banners inscribed '100'. Within the cartouche the issuer name and location appear in bold serif type above the emission date. The right quarter of the note is left blank, consistent with the stub format of the issue. |
| Reverse lettering | 100 CRÉDIT GRUYÈRIEN 100 à BULLE Emission du 1er Janvier 1874. |
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Crédit Gruyérien à Bulle was one of the cantonal private banks of emission operating under the Swiss note-issuing regime before federal consolidation. The 1874 date places this squarely in the pluralist period when dozens of Swiss cantonal and private institutions each circulated their own paper — a system the Federal Banking Law of 1881 began dismantling, with the Swiss National Bank eventually absorbing all private issuing rights after 1907.
Bulle is the commercial heart of the Gruyère district in Fribourg, and a regional agricultural lender issuing 100-franc notes in 1874 would have served a fairly narrow catchment. Survival rate for such provincial Swiss private issues is predictably low; most were redeemed and pulped during the transition to centralised currency.