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100 Kronor
| Issuer | Sundsvalls Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in warm brown tones, the reverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche pattern with a large central numeral '100' enclosed within an oval lathe-work frame. Two symmetrical oval vignettes, one to the left and one to the right of the central numeral, each contain a profile portrait of a classical warrior figure wearing a crested helmet. The bank name and denomination legend are worked into the surrounding guilloche bands, with ornamental corner medallions repeating the denomination numeral. A perforated 'SPECIMEN BY ACT OF LONDON' cancellation is also present on this side. |
| Reverse lettering | SUNDSVALLS ENSKILDA BANK ETT HUNDRA KRONOR 100 |
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Sundsvalls Enskilda Bank was one of roughly 30 Swedish private banks granted the right to issue their own currency under the 1824 and 1864 banking acts — a system that produced extraordinary regional variety before the Riksbank monopoly was finally consolidated in 1904. The Sundsvall institution was heavily tied to the northern timber trade, and notes of this denomination would have moved through sawmill payrolls and lumber export settlements along the Gulf of Bothnia coast.
Perkins Bacon's involvement is characteristic of the period; Swedish enskilda banks routinely contracted London security printers for intaglio work their domestic printers couldn't match. High-denomination private bank notes from this era rarely survived in numbers — commercial redemption and the 1904 consolidation pulled most of them out of circulation permanently.