50 Francs

The Banque du Commerce de Genève was one of several Swiss cantonal and private banks of issue that operated under the fragmented pre-federal banking system — a arrangement that persisted until the Swiss National Bank's establishment in 1907 effectively ended private note issuance. This note falls squarely in that final window, when private banks were still competing for circulation against increasingly aggressive federal consolidation pressure.

Albert Walch was a Viennese engraver closely associated with the Austrian state printing works; Josef von Storck, better known as an applied arts architect and director of the Vienna Museum of Art and Industry, contributed design work to banknote production as part of that institution's broader commercial engraving output. An unusual pairing for a Geneva private bank.