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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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| Obverse description | Grey-green intaglio-printed note with an elaborate guilloche border and ornamental corner pieces bearing the denomination numeral 100. A central oval vignette presents a portrait of a young woman in classical dress with braided hair and a pearl necklace. The bank name arcs across the upper portion in bold letterpress, while the denomination inscription and place and date of issue appear in the lower central field. The letter designation 'Litt. B.' and serial number appear on either side of the portrait vignette. A perforated 'SPECIMEN BY ACT OF LONDON' cancellation is present on this example. |
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| Obverse lettering | SUNDSVALLS ENSKILDA BANK Litt. B. Nº 40000 inlöser vid anfordran denna sedel med ETT HUNDRA KRONOR I GULDMYNT SUNDSVALL 1875. ETT HUNDRA |
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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.