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100 Kronor
| Issuer | Stockholms Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire composition. At upper centre, a detailed vignette presents a panoramic cityscape of Stockholm with waterfront; flanking it are two oval medallions bearing the numeral 100 in ornate surrounds. At lower left, an allegorical female figure stands beside a lion, while at lower right an oval portrait vignette contains a bust of a woman in traditional dress. The denomination ETTHUNDRA Kronor appears in bold letterpress at centre, with the issuer's name STOCKHOLMS ENSKILDA BANK inscribed across the upper field, and a manuscript-style place-and-date line reading Stockholm 1876 with serial number area below; a SPECIMEN overprint appears at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | STOCKHOLMS ENSKILDA BANK inlöser vid anfordran denna Banksedel med Kronor ETTHUNDRA Kronor Stockholm 1876 No 00000 SPECIMEN |
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Stockholms Enskilda Bank was the house bank of the Wallenberg family dynasty, founded by André Oscar Wallenberg in 1856. By 1876, it was one of the most commercially aggressive private banks in Sweden, issuing its own notes in direct competition with the Riksbank at a time when Sweden's transition toward a centralized note-issuing monopoly was already underway. Private bank note issuance was being systematically curtailed through this period; the Riksbank would ultimately consolidate that monopoly by 1904.
Notes from this bank are scarcer than their Riksbank contemporaries — private issuance volumes were modest, redemption rates high, and surviving examples rarely escaped the bank's own vaults intact.