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10 Kronor Riksbank anniversary
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Value | 10 Kronor (10 SEK) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio print with the allegorical figure of Mother Svea, personification of Sweden, in three-quarter portrait to the right, set against a guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral appears in the centre, flanked by ornamental vignettes. |
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| Reverse description | Red and multicolour intaglio print centred on an engraved street-scene vignette of the old Riksbank building in Stockholm, with period figures and horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground. The denomination numeral '10' appears in ornamental guilloche cartouches at the upper left and upper right, with an additional guilloche scroll numeral at lower right. A period Swedish text inscription is set within a decorative panel at the lower centre. |
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Issued to mark the 300th anniversary of Sveriges Riksbank — founded in 1668, making it the oldest central bank in the world still in operation — this commemorative note was a deliberate institutional statement at a time when central bank credibility was under strain across Western economies. The 1960s had seen the Bretton Woods system creaking badly, and Sweden was not immune to the pressures on fixed exchange rates.
Tumba Bruk, the paper mill and printing facility outside Stockholm, had supplied Riksbank with banknote paper since the eighteenth century, giving this issue an unbroken domestic production chain that few countries could claim.