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33 1/3 Riksdaler Banco
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1836-1857 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows a mirror-image offset impression of the obverse printing, a characteristic of the single-sided letterpress production method used for these early Swedish banco notes, with the lion-and-globe vignette and text visible in reverse through the thin cotton paper. The serial number 'No 82525' and the letter 'C' with 'Litt.' designation are legible in their correct orientation at the lower portion of the sheet, indicating they were applied separately to the back. |
| Reverse lettering | No 82525 Litt. C |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Estates of the Realm Bank, precursor to Sveriges Riksbank — issued this denomination as part of a deliberately fractional system designed to bridge the gap between smaller and larger Riksdaler Banco notes. The 33⅓ figure is not an accounting oddity: it represents exactly one-third of 100 Riksdaler Banco, a clean fraction in a monetary framework still anchored to the old Swedish counting system where 48 skilling banco equaled one riksdaler.
The twenty-one-year emission window coincided with Sweden's prolonged transition away from the Banco monetary standard, which was formally replaced by the Riksdaler Riksmynt system in 1855 — rendering this denomination obsolete within two years of the series closing.