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16 Schillingar / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor |
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| Year | 1792-1834 |
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| Value | 16 Schillingar |
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| Obverse lettering | 16 Schillingar Wi Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor är insatt en Summa af Sexton Schillingar, hwilka 16 Schillingar Innehafwaren häraf har at återbekomma. Stockholm d. 9 Juni 1796. Sexton Schillingar. Kuusitoista kymmentä Skillingiä. Den som denne Sedel efterapar skall warda hängd, men den som bewiisligen uptäcker efteraparen undfår en Belöning af Etthundra Riksdaler. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed as a mirror image (verso) of the obverse text in blackletter and italic script, visible through the thin paper as a typeset impression. The denomination abbreviations '16 Sch.' appear in the upper left and upper right corners in decorative script, with the full obverse text block printed in reverse below. |
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The Riksgäldskontoret — the National Debt Office, not the Riksbank — became an emergency issuer of paper money during Sweden's financially ruinous wars of the late eighteenth century. Its notes circulated in parallel with Riksbank currency, creating a two-track paper system that confused commerce and drove Swedish monetary policy into decades of dysfunction. The 16 Schillingar denomination sits in the fractional range that saw the heaviest everyday use, which means survivors in any decent state are genuinely hard to find.
The bilingual denomination line, Swedish and Finnish, reflects the political reality of the Swedish realm before the 1809 loss of Finland to Russia.