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100 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1907-1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Upper left bears the denomination numeral '100' within an elaborate dark guilloché panel, with the Gothic-script bank title 'Sveriges Riksbank' running across the upper portion. A multicolour guilloché underprint fills the centre, overlaid in intaglio with the denomination legend 'Ett Hundra Kronor'. To the lower right, a finely line-engraved intaglio vignette presents Svea, the allegorical female personification of Sweden, seated beside a lion and holding a shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å Ett Hundra Kronor med guldmynt enligt lagen om rikets mynt af den 30 Mai 1873 (Translation: Sweden's Riksbank will pay, on demand, for this note One Hundred Kronor in gold coin according to the law on the national coinage of 30th May 1873) |
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Pick 29 was the first Swedish 100-kronor note to feature the portrait of Gustaf Vasa, a deliberate choice by the Riksbank to anchor the currency in national historical identity during a period of considerable political tension — the dissolution of the union with Norway had occurred just two years before the first notes of this type were issued. The Riksbank was acutely conscious of projecting Swedish institutional permanence.
The series spans a decade largely coinciding with the First World War, during which Sweden maintained neutrality but experienced sharp inflation and significant strain on metallic reserves. Notes of this denomination circulated hard during those years.