In this article, we will take a closer look at the penultimate question for the participants in the second part of today's TV game "Who want to be a millionaire?" for October 7, 2017. A full review of the game can be viewed by clicking on the link above.

What was the rank of 50 Swiss francs in 2016?

The correct answer is traditionally highlighted in blue and in italics. It should be noted that it took our players a lot of time to answer the question, they could not decide. After taking the clue "50:50", the players were left with two possible answers: the most beautiful or the most durable. Personally, I was inclined to answer: the most durable, but this is the wrong answer.

In the spring of 2016, a new banknote of 50 Swiss francs was released into mass circulation. Now, a year later, she boasts not only national, but also international recognition!
The International Bank Note Society has named 50 francs the most beautiful banknote in the world in 2016. Recall that since 2005, the International Banknote Society annually determines the most beautiful banknote in the world.

Designed by Swiss artist and designer Manuela Pfrunder, the banknote is the result of a 10-year development and preparation process full of setbacks and technical overheads. After all, these bills have a very advanced protection against counterfeiting. The banknote is made on the principle of a layer cake. Between the two layers of special paper, a special transparent plastic layer will be embedded, which, as it is believed, will make it very difficult for counterfeiters to work.

• the most protected
• the most beautiful
• the most durable
• the most expensive

At the beginning of April 2016, at a press conference at the Swiss National Bank, SNB showed the general public a new denomination of 50 denominations. This is the first banknote from the new, 9th series, called "Multifaceted Switzerland", which will be put into circulation from 2016 to 2019. Unlike the previous series, the new Swiss francs will not include images of famous Swiss people. The plots of the new banknotes will reflect such themes as organization, creativity, experience, humanity, progress and dialogue. The new Swiss francs should show Switzerland as a country open to the whole world, and should become a kind of "attractive calling card" of this Alpine country. On April 12, 2016, the new 50-franc note, as the "first-born" of the new series, was officially launched into circulation.

Swiss economist and chairman of the board National Bank Since 2012, Thomas Jordan, opening this press conference, emphasized that cash - despite serious competition from electronic means of payment - is still very popular in Switzerland. SNB will continue to issue cash at a new technical level and with appropriate levels of protection.

Each side of the new banknote illustrates a specific action or a specific place in Switzerland, and also contains certain semantic graphic elements. The new 50-franc note retained - like its predecessor - the green tone. The front side of the banknote depicts a hand holding a dandelion, as well as a globe with wind arrows as on a weather map. On the reverse side there is an image of a paraglider against the background of the Alpine mountain range Aletsch (Aletschgebiet). The main element of the graphic design of the new banknote is the wind.

The designer of the 9th series of new Swiss banknotes is the graphic artist Manuela Pfrunder. She was born and raised in , where she graduated from the Institute of Design and Arts (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) in 2000, and has been working as a designer in 2003. Why was the wind chosen as the main element? Manuela Pfrunder answered this question in an interview with Blick newspaper on 04/06/2016: “Wind is a global phenomenon, it is connected not only with Switzerland. But we used it to create paintings, to connect individual details of decoration with each other, to tell the story of the wind and to illustrate the eventful history of Switzerland with this.”

The main graphic element of the 10-franc note should be time, the 20-franc note - light, the 100-franc note - water, the 200-franc note - matter. The main element of the 1000-franc note is human language as a means of communication. As in the 8th series, the smallest note is the 10-franc note, the largest is the 1000-franc note. In general, the new Swiss francs become a few millimeters smaller in length and width.

The Swiss National Bank is clearly in no hurry to issue new banknotes: the appearance is expected in 2017, the rest should appear at intervals of 6 to 12 months until the spring of 2019. The number of banknote types remains unchanged: 6 denominations of 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 1000 francs. The new 100-franc note should appear last.

The new money will be printed in the printing house of the Swiss holding "Orell Füssli". Orell Füssli was founded in 1519 and - in addition to printing money for the SNB - is quite successfully engaged in publishing and book trade. Security is a priority in the production of new banknotes. The new banknotes are three-layer: between two layers of special paper there is a kind of core made of polymer material. The paper for the new money was developed by the Swiss company Landqart in collaboration with the Swiss State Technical Institute ETH. Landqart also produces the paper on which Swiss passports are printed.

There is no need to urgently change the old 50-franc notes of the 8th series for new ones: they are still legal means of payment until new instructions from the National Bank. According to SNB experience, 2/3 of old banknotes are replaced with new ones within approximately 6 months. The new banknote contains 16 security levels and is one of the most reliable banknotes in the world.

In this article, we will take a closer look at the penultimate question for the participants in the second part of today's TV game. A full review of the game can be viewed by clicking on the link above.

What was the rank of 50 Swiss francs in 2016?

The correct answer is traditionally highlighted in blue and in italics. It should be noted that it took our players a lot of time to answer the question, they could not decide. After taking the clue "50:50", the players were left with two possible answers: the most beautiful or the most durable. Personally, I was inclined to answer: the most durable, but this is the wrong answer.

In the spring of 2016, a new banknote of 50 Swiss francs was released into mass circulation. Now, a year later, she boasts not only national, but also international recognition!
The International Bank Note Society has named 50 francs the most beautiful banknote in the world in 2016. Recall that since 2005, the International Banknote Society annually determines the most beautiful banknote in the world.

Designed by Swiss artist and designer Manuela Pfrunder, the banknote is the result of a 10-year development and preparation process full of setbacks and technical overheads. After all, these bills have a very advanced protection against counterfeiting. The banknote is made on the principle of a layer cake. Between the two layers of special paper, a special transparent plastic layer will be embedded, which, as it is believed, will make it very difficult for counterfeiters to work.

• the most protected
• the most beautiful
• the most durable
• the most expensive

The international banknote community (International Bank Note Society, IBNS) has chosen the updated 50 Swiss franc note as the best banknote of 2016. It was not an easy task, because almost 120 new banknotes were issued in the world over the past year.

Swiss franc - The most beautiful banknote of 2016 | Photo: theibns.org

The design of the 50-franc "banknote" was changed for the first time in 20 years. When creating a banknote used the latest tools protection. The image is aligned vertically. The idea is based on two components - wind and national experience. On the one hand, a hand with a white dandelion is depicted, on the other, a man flying on a paraglider in the mountains.

The amount of 50 Swiss francs at the current exchange rate is equivalent to about the same amount of US dollars.

The second place was shared by several banknotes from the Maldives and Argentina:

The 1000 Maldivian Rufiyaa banknote features a sea turtle on one side and a whale shark on the other.

The new 500 Argentine pesos are decorated with a leopard and elements of nature.

Also among the winners was a £5 note issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland - it depicts the Scottish novelist and poet Nan Shepherd.

The International Banknote Society is an independent union of banknote collectors, which each year chooses the best banknote of the year by online voting on its website.

A contender for a high title must either have innovative protection against counterfeiters, or be a real work of art - in the latter case, it is the artistic value of the banknote that is evaluated. Another important condition is that the banknote must be in circulation.

This non-profit educational organization studies banknotes and paper money from all over the world. The members of the union are experts from more than 90 countries.

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The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) named 50 francs the most beautiful banknote in the world in 2016.