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100 Riksdaler
| Issuer | Stockholms Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1872 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is executed entirely in intaglio with an intricate engine-turned guilloche pattern filling the entire field, incorporating repeated microtext 'Etthundra Riksdaler' woven throughout the lathe-work underprint. A central ornate medallion bears the numeral '100' within a complex geometric frame, surmounted by the word 'Stockholms' in script and flanked by two additional guilloche rosettes. The inscription 'ENSKILDA BANK' appears below the central medallion, and the word 'STOCKHOLM' is printed vertically in large letters along both the left and right borders. A printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Complex engine-turned guilloche lathe-work covering the entire reverse field; repeated microtext denomination woven into the guilloche pattern throughout the note. |
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Stockholms Enskilda Bank, founded in 1856 by André Oscar Wallenberg, was one of Sweden's first privately chartered banks and remained closely identified with the Wallenberg family's financial ambitions throughout the nineteenth century. Commissioning the American Bank Note Company in New York for this 1872 issue was a deliberate prestige choice — ABNC's engraved intaglio work was considered the international benchmark for anti-counterfeiting quality at the time, and several Scandinavian private banks made the same calculation in this period.
The microtext incorporated into the guilloche underprint was an ABNC speciality, embedded as a deterrent against the photographic reproduction methods then beginning to concern note issuers across Europe.