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100 Kronor
| Issuer | Göteborgs Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is rendered in warm ochre and pale orange tones with a symmetrical composition centred on a bold numeral 100 within a shielded guilloche vignette. Matching oval portrait vignettes of a female allegorical head in profile are positioned at left and right centre, each enclosed within fine lathe-work borders. GÖTEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK arcs across the upper register, with the denomination numeral 100 repeated in small cartouches at the top and bottom margins. |
| Reverse lettering | GÖTEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK 100 ETT HUNDRA |
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Göteborgs Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's larger private commercial banks, operating under the enskilda bank system that allowed note issuance backed by the liable capital of shareholders — a structure that made Swedish private banknote issuers unusually solvent by European standards. The system was already under pressure by 1882; the Riksbank was steadily consolidating monopoly control over issuance, and most enskilda banks lost their right to issue notes by 1903.
At the 100 kronor level, this would have been a high-denomination instrument, unlikely to appear in everyday retail transactions. Surviving examples from provincial Swedish private banks at this value are genuinely uncommon.