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3 Riksdaler Specie Transport Banknote; Type 2
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Växel-Banco (Bank of the Estates of the Realm) |
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| Year | 1787-1812 |
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| Currency | Fourth riksdaler (1719-1798) |
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| Obverse description | Two large embossed dry-seal impressions at top centre, one circular and one oval, bearing the bank's authority marks. Below, the denomination 'RD 3 Sp.' in gothic letterpress, followed by multi-line text in Swedish and Finnish. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower right, with a handwritten date of 30 April 1809. |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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The Riksens Ständers Växel-Banco was not a royal institution — it was owned and guaranteed by the four Estates of the Swedish Riksdag, a constitutional arrangement that made it genuinely independent of the crown. That distinction mattered enormously during the turbulent reign of Gustav III, who was assassinated in 1792, and through the regency years that followed.
Transport notes of this series functioned as bearer instruments for transferring large sums between parties, distinct from the bank's ordinary circulation notes. The 25-year issuance window spanning 1787 to 1812 reflects continuous reuse of the plate design across several politically and economically disruptive decades, including Sweden's involvement in the Napoleonic Wars and the forced abdication of Gustav IV Adolf in 1809.