500 Riksdaler Riksmynt

Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Estates of the Realm Bank, forerunner to the Riksbank — issued this 500 Riksdaler Riksmynt note during the transitional decade when Sweden was standardizing its currency ahead of the eventual adoption of the Riksdaler Riksmynt as the sole unit of account. The 1855 monetary reform had separated the Riksmynt from the older Banco system, and high-denomination notes like this one functioned almost exclusively in commercial and institutional transactions, rarely touching ordinary trade.

Back-printing registration as a security measure was rudimentary by later standards, but adequate for a denomination that circulated only among merchants and banks who scrutinized their paper carefully. Surviving examples are scarce simply because so few were ever printed.