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unusual facts about Swiss francs



500 euro note

It is one of the highest value circulating banknotes in the world, worth around 630 USD, 4,000 CNY, 50,100 JPY, 600 CHF or 400 GBP.

Despro

Annually Switzerland invests about 2.8 billion Swiss francs to fight poverty and to support the economic growth in the developing countries and Eastern European countries, including the CIS.


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Werner Rey

Werner Kurt Rey (born October 6, 1943 in Zürich) is a Swiss entrepreneur former bank clerk, who made a name for himself in 1976 when acquiring the majority of the venerable but loss-making Bally Shoe company and selling his stake soon later with a profit of around 60 million Swiss francs.