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10 Kronor
| Issuer | Helsinglands Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1879 |
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| Value | 10 Kronor |
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| Obverse lettering | HELSINGLANDS ENSKILDA BANK KRONOR TIO KRONOR TIO Litt. M Söderhamn 1879 inlöser vid anfordran denna sedel med |
| Reverse description | Executed entirely in grey-green tint-letterpress with dense lathe-work guilloche patterns covering the full surface. A large central medallion, surrounded by the circular inscription HELSINGLANDS ENSKILDA BANK, contains a finely engraved left-facing female portrait bust. Elaborate rosette cornerpieces each carry the numeral 10, with the denomination repeated in mirror-inverted lettering at the base of the central medallion. |
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Helsinglands Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's provincial private banks operating under the enskilda bank system, which allowed chartered commercial banks to issue their own notes — a practice that continued until the Riksbank secured monopoly on note issue in 1904. By 1879, the system was already under pressure from consolidation debates in the Riksdag, and many of the smaller provincial issuers were winding down or merging within a decade of this note's printing.
Pick 265 is sparsely documented in major collections, which likely reflects low survival rates rather than high original print runs — provincial Swedish enskilda notes were redeemed aggressively once the monopoly legislation passed.