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100 Riksdaler Riksmynt
| Issuer | Götheborgs Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1858 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on a pale blue guilloche underprint, with a central engraved vignette of the Gothenburg harbour and cityscape — sailing vessels in the foreground and the city's church towers and buildings along the skyline. Above the vignette, the bank's heraldic lion device appears within a circular cartouche inscribed with the bank's name in French, flanked by bilingual legends in the upper corners. The denomination numeral '100' appears in four corner medallions and as a large yellow underprint figure at the lower centre, with the issuer's name and the redemption text in bold letterpress below the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain white cotton paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation — consistent with mid-nineteenth-century Swedish provincial banknote production practice. |
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Götheborgs Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's proliferating private enskilda banks, authorized under the 1824 and later 1846 banking legislation that permitted note-issuing privileges to joint-stock institutions outside the Riksbank's monopoly. By 1858 there were dozens of such banks circulating their own paper, and the riksdaler riksmynt — introduced as Sweden's decimal unit in 1855 — was still newly established as the accounting standard.
High-denomination notes from provincial enskilda banks of this period survived in tiny numbers. Commercial use was limited to merchant settlements; ordinary retail circulation at 100 riksdaler was essentially nonexistent.