Attractive and historically significant Première de Change (First of Exchange) issued by the Geneva banking house Roget, Lullin & Cie (R.L. & C., Genève), drawn for 540 Austrian florins (florins courants d’Autriche) and payable in Vienna.The firm of Lullin & Cie has been swallowed up later by the Swiss Banking Corporation,

The document features the prominent vertical firm imprint “R.L. & C., Genève”, with lithographic credit to Schmidt, Geneva, reflecting mid-19th-century Swiss security printing craftsmanship. Executed in French, the instrument represents a classic example of pre-telegraph international financial settlement between Swiss and Austrian markets.