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10 Riksdaler
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor |
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| Year | 1816-1834 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-white cotton paper note with handwritten and manuscript text throughout. The serial number is inscribed in ink at the top centre, above the principal text block reading 'Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor hafver' followed by the sum and handwritten transport inscriptions in Swedish. A manuscript date 'Stockholm den 21 June 1827' appears in the lower portion, with multiple authorising manuscript signatures and a small inked stamp in the lower text area. |
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| Obverse lettering | No 2473 Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor hafver insatt på Transporträkningen Hvilka böra egenhändigt och tydligen transporteras med dag och åhre-tahl, ifrån man til man, och skal sista transportens inne- hafware utbekomma denna Summa. Stockholm den 21 June 1827 |
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Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor — the Riksgäld, or National Debt Office — was an unusual issuing authority by any measure: a state debt-management body granted banknote-issuing powers by the Swedish Estates rather than a conventional central bank. This arrangement dated to 1789, when Gustav III needed emergency war financing outside the Riksbank's oversight. The resulting institutional rivalry between the two bodies ran for decades and directly shaped Swedish monetary policy well into the nineteenth century.
Notes of this series circulated during the period when Sweden was actively working to stabilize its currency following the severe depreciation of the Napoleonic years. The 1834 endpoint of this issue coincides broadly with the monetary reforms that eventually reunified note-issuing authority.