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100 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1880-1898 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-grey with an elaborate engine-turned guilloche underprint filling the entire field. The royal arms of Sweden appear in each upper corner, flanked by lion supporters, with the denomination numeral 100 repeated in ornamental cartouches at the four corners and along the lower border. The bank name SVERIGES RIKSBANK is set in bold blackletter type at the upper centre, above the large intaglio-printed denomination ETT HUNDRA KRONOR in decorative Victorian lettering, with the payment obligation text and the Stockholm date below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å Ett Hundra Kronor med guldmynt enligt lagen om rikets mynt af den 30 Maj 1873 (Translation: Sweden's Riksbank will pay, on demand, for this note One Hundred Kronor in gold coin according to the law on the national coinage of 30th May 1873) |
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Pick 11 covers the long transitional stretch when the Riksbank was still navigating the practical consequences of Sweden's 1873 adoption of the Scandinavian Monetary Union, which pegged the krona to gold and formally replaced the riksdaler. The 100 kronor denomination was the workhorse of commercial settlement — retail trade rarely saw notes this large — and surviving examples from the 1880s issues tend to show heavy handling consistent with inter-merchant and banking use.
The series ran nearly two decades without a fundamental redesign, an unusually long lifespan even by the conservative standards of late nineteenth-century European central banking.