Catalog
10 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1963-1990 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and green, with an abstract vignette of undulating bands evoking the aurora borealis sweeping across the field. Three stylised snowflake medallions — one in a diamond cartouche at left, one in a hexagonal cartouche at upper right, and one in a circular guilloche at centre — are interspersed within the wave pattern. The denomination numeral "10" appears in the upper left corner and within a guilloche cartouche at lower right. |
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| Variants | P#52a - 1963 P#52b - 1966 & 1968 P#52c - 1971, 1972 & 1975 P#52d - 1976, 1977, 1979, 1983 & 1985 engraved P#52e - 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989 & 1990 offset |
| Comments |
Tumba Bruk has produced Swedish banknote paper since 1755, one of the longest continuous security printing operations in Europe. By the time this series entered circulation in 1963, the facility had been nationalized under Riksbank oversight, giving Sweden an unusually tight vertical integration between paper production and note issuance rarely seen outside wartime arrangements.
P#52 ran for nearly three decades before retirement, a lifespan that invited significant wear on circulating stock. High-grade examples are harder to find than the long print run suggests.