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100 Riksdaler Riksmynt
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1859-1864 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on cream-white paper and displays the royal Swedish coat of arms at the top centre, supported by two rampant lions beneath a crown, with an intricate guilloche border running the full perimeter. The bank title "Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank" appears in curved script flanking the arms, and two oval underprint panels bearing the numeral "100" are positioned at the left and right margins. The central text block carries the denomination "ETTHUNDRA" in bold letterpress between the words "Riksdaler" and "Riksmynt", with the redemption clause and the dated place-line "Stockholm den 2 Januarii 1861" printed below in italic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank RIKSDALER DEN RIKSMYNT ETTHUNDRA No inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å med 25 Riksdaler i Silfwer, eller 200 Ört Lofs-lödigt mynadt silfwer. Stockholm den 2 Januarii 1861 100 |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Riksdag's own bank, predecessor to the Riksbank — issued this 100 Riksdaler Riksmynt series during a transitional decade in Swedish monetary history. The Riksmynt unit had been introduced in 1855 to decimalize the currency, replacing the older skilling and riksdaler species system. Notes denominated in Riksmynt were therefore still relatively new instruments when this series circulated, and public familiarity with the decimal conversion was not yet settled.
At 100 Riksmynt, this was a high-denomination note by the standards of most Swedish workers of the period. Printed domestically in Stockholm rather than contracted abroad, as many smaller European states were then doing.