Swiss Citizens Have Their Say on New Banknotes

In last month’s Currency News™ we mused on whether inviting the public to provide input into new currency designs was a good or a bad thing. It has undoubted benefits, but also carries risks.

Those risks notwithstanding, the latest country to involves its citizens in banknote designs is Switzerland, where the Swiss National Bank has opened up the proposed themes for the next, tenth, banknote series to the public.

SNB first announced that work had begun on the country’s new banknote series last year (see CN October 2024). It had already decided on the theme – ‘Switzerland and its Altitudes’ – which will pay homage to the country’s unique mountainous topography, from the Jura and the Central Plateau to the Alps, and depict Switzerland from its deepest valleys to its highest peaks.