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1 Riksdaler / Riikin Talaria
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor |
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| Year | 1792-1849 |
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| Currency | Riksdaler (1777-1873) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper note with letterpress text in an archaic Swedish typeface. The upper portion carries a monogram cipher in bold script above the denomination numeral '1', followed by a formal block of text reading the promise to pay one Riksdaler, issued in Stockholm with a manuscript date of 1814. At the lower left, the denomination is restated in both Swedish and Finnish, with a smaller cautionary inscription at the lower right regarding penalties for forgery. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ri Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor är insatt en Summa af En Riksdaler, hvilken 1 Riksdaler Innehafvaren häraf har at återbekomma. Stockholm den 1814. En Riksdaler. Ähden Riikin Talaria. Den som denne Sedel efterapar skall varda länd, men den som bevilligar villkor efteraparen undgår en Betalning af Ettuende Riksdaler. |
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Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor — the Riksgäld, or National Debt Office — was established in 1789 by the Swedish Riksdag specifically to finance Gustav III's costly war against Russia, deliberately bypassing the Riksbank, which the Estates controlled and refused to bend to royal fiscal pressure. This 1 Riksdaler note belongs to a series that circulated for over half a century, an unusually long lifespan driven by chronic reluctance to commit resources to replacement printing during periods of postwar austerity.
The bilingual Swedish-Finnish titling reflects Sweden's administrative reach before Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809 — notes printed well after that date carried Finnish text for a territory Sweden no longer governed.