Catalog
10 Kronor
| Issuer | Enskilda Banken i Wenersborg |
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| Year | 1879 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | TIO ENSKILDA BANKEN I WENERSBORG Litt. E TIO KRONOR I GULDMYNT WENERSBORG 1879 BRADBURY WILKINSON & CO LAGRAVEURS & LONDON |
| Reverse description | The reverse is executed in a dense blue guilloche pattern across the entire field, with large bold numeral 10 appearing in each of the four corners and at the centre-left and centre-right panels. A central oval medallion, printed in ochre-orange, contains a faint female portrait rendered as a watermark-style underprint vignette. The bank name ENSKILDA BANKEN I WENERSBORG runs across the upper register, and the denomination legend TIO KRONOR TIO is inscribed along the lower margin. |
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Enskilda Banken i Wenersborg was one of Sweden's provincial private banks operating under the 1824 and later 1864 banking acts, which permitted chartered institutions to issue their own notes — a system that produced dozens of competing local currencies across the country. Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. handled a considerable volume of Scandinavian private bank printing during this period, their London facility being the preferred choice for institutions that wanted engraved intaglio work beyond the reach of domestic printers.
The Riksbank eventually absorbed note-issuing rights from all enskilda banks by 1904, making provincial issues like this one obsolete within a generation of printing.