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6 2/3 Riksdaler Banco
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1835-1856 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank Nº 95651 Litt. G Riksdr Sex och Trettiotva skill. Banco med 2½ Riksdr Silfver Specie, enligt 1830 Års Mynt-Fot. Stockholm den 1e December 1841 RIKSDr 10 RIKSGD |
| Reverse description | The reverse is largely unprinted, showing the plain cotton paper with show-through of the obverse intaglio impression visible as a mirror image. A handwritten annotation in ink appears in the upper right corner, and several old repair patches and cancellation stamps are present, consistent with the note having circulated extensively. |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the precursor to Sveriges Riksbank — issued this note during a period when Swedish monetary denominations were still tied to the baroque fractional arithmetic of the riksdaler system, where banco, riksgälds, and specie values all floated against each other at legislated but contested rates. The 6 2/3 riksdaler denomination is not an eccentricity; it equals precisely one-third of 20 riksdaler banco, a clean fraction within the internal accounting logic of the period.
The banco designation mattered. Riksdaler banco was the more stable of the competing units, anchored to the Riksbank's own books rather than the state debt certificates underpinning riksgälds notes. Sweden's currency unification in 1855, which collapsed these parallel systems into a single riksdaler riksmynt, effectively ended the rationale for this denomination.