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100 Kronor
| Issuer | Uplands Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Value | 100 Kronor |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark grey and gold on white cotton paper, the obverse is divided into five principal zones by ornate guilloche borders. A central architectural vignette at the top shows Uppsala Cathedral rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Below it, the bank title 'UPLANDS ENSKILDA BANK' appears in bold letterpress above the denomination text 'ETT HUNDRA KRONOR / I GULDMYNT' and the place and date 'UPSALA 1874'. To the left, a tall vignette contains an intaglio statue of a Viking or medieval king holding a staff and shield, while to the right a crowned heraldic shield occupies a matching panel; all four corners bear bold '100' numerals within circular guilloche frames. A large gold-orange underprint of the numeral '100' fills the centre of the note, and the word 'SPECIMEN' is perforated across the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | UPLANDS ENSKILDA BANK Litt. C No. 14000 inloser vid anfordran denna sedel med ETT HUNDRA KRONOR I GULDMYNT UPSALA 1874 ETT HUNDRA SPECIMEN 100 |
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Uplands Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's provincial private banks operating under the enskilda bank system, which permitted note issue against paid-up capital. By 1874 that system was already under pressure — the Riksbank had been pushing for centralized note issuance for years, and the enskilda banks' days as independent issuers were effectively numbered by the Banking Act of 1897, which finally stripped them of the privilege.
Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. handled a significant volume of Scandinavian provincial bank work during this period, their intaglio security printing being considered beyond what local Swedish facilities could reliably replicate. The P#629 designation places this among the scarcer surviving Uplands issues.