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10 Riksdaler Riksmynt
| Issuer | Wadstena Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1857 |
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| Value | 10 Riksdaler Riksmynt |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper with an elaborate guilloche underprint throughout. A central oval vignette bears the numeral TIO (10) framed by ornamental scrollwork, flanked by the abbreviated denominations Riksdr. and Riksmt. The bank's coat-of-arms appears at the top centre, with the issuer's name WADSTENA ENSKILDA BANK and the redemption legend inlöser vid anfordran denna Sedel med inscribed above; the serial letter Litt. A, fractional series number, and handwritten serial number appear in the upper field, with three manuscript signatures below the date Wadstena 1857. |
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| Obverse lettering | WADSTENA ENSKILDA BANK inlöser vid anfordran denna Sedel med Riksd.r TIO Riksmt. Litt. A Wadstena 1857 10 |
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Wadstena Enskilda Bank was one of dozens of Swedish provincial private banks authorized to issue notes under the 1824 enskilda bank legislation — a deliberately decentralized system that left Sweden with a chaotic plurality of local currencies well into the second half of the nineteenth century. The Riksbank pushed hard for consolidation throughout the 1850s, and many smaller enskilda banks found their note-issuing privileges curtailed or revoked within a decade of this issue.
The denomination in riksdaler riksmynt rather than riksdaler specie reflects the transitional decimal monetary reform of 1855, which redefined the unit of account at a ratio of 100 öre to one riksdaler riksmynt.