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8 Schillingar Specie / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco |
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| Year | 1802-1834 |
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| Value | 8 Schillingar Specie |
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| Obverse description | A plain typeset letterpress note on aged paper stock, with the denomination abbreviated at the head of the note as 'Sch. 8 Sp.' The body text, set in blackletter typeface, records the Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco's obligation to pay the bearer on demand, with the date and place of issue — Stockholm, 13 September 1804 — entered in manuscript. The denomination is restated in both Swedish ('Åtta Schillingar Specie') and Finnish ('Kahdeksan Skillingiä') in the lower text block, followed by a printed anti-counterfeiting warning clause and two manuscript authorising signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface consistent with early nineteenth-century Swedish banco note production. Light show-through of the obverse letterpress text is visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock, accompanied by fold lines and light aging commensurate with circulation. |
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Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco — the Estates of the Realm Exchange Bank — was Sweden's dominant issuing institution before the Riksbank consolidated control in the mid-nineteenth century. The 8 Schillingar denomination in this series was a low-value instrument aimed squarely at everyday commerce, and the bilingual designation pairing Swedish "Schillingar Specie" with Finnish "Skillingiä" reflects the administrative reality of a Swedish realm that still included Finland until the 1809 war with Russia stripped it away permanently.
Notes from this series printed after 1809 carry a denomination name that had already become politically anachronistic — Finnish was no longer an official language of Swedish territory.