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5 Kronor
| Issuer | Gefleborgs Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette of the bank's full heraldic achievement in a pale rose-green bicolour underprint: a quartered shield bearing a moose, surmounted by a crown and supported by allegorical figures, enclosed within an elaborate foliate and scroll surround. A ribbon banner across the base bears the inscriptions GEFLEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK and KRONOR FEM KRONOR, with the design executed in fine intaglio line work on plain cream paper with no additional border framing. |
| Reverse lettering | GEFLEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK KRONOR FEM KRONOR |
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Gefleborgs Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's provincial private banks operating under the enskilda bank system, which allowed note-issuing privileges to chartered institutions outside the Riksbank. The 1875 date places this note in the twilight of that system — the Riksbank gained monopoly on note issuance in 1897, and most enskilda banks either converted or wound up their affairs in the years following.
Gefle, now Gävle, was a significant Baltic port town, and the bank served the commercial traffic of the region. Notes from smaller provincial issuers in this series survive in far lower numbers than those from Stockholm-area institutions.