10 000 Kronor

The 10,000 Kronor was the highest denomination Sveriges Riksbank ever issued, and P#49 belongs to the 1958 series that served almost exclusively as an interbank settlement instrument. Notes of this value rarely passed through retail commerce — they existed to move large sums between financial institutions with minimal paper handling, a function that became redundant once electronic clearing expanded in the 1970s.

Recall of this series was completed well before the broader 1985–1987 demonetization of older Riksbank issues, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon precisely because so few were ever held outside institutional hands.