100 Riksdaler Riksmynt

Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Riksdag's own bank, predecessor to the Riksbank — issued this 100 Riksdaler Riksmynt series during a transitional decade in Swedish monetary history. The Riksmynt unit had been introduced in 1855 to decimalize the currency, replacing the older skilling and riksdaler species system. Notes denominated in Riksmynt were therefore still relatively new instruments when this series circulated, and public familiarity with the decimal conversion was not yet settled.

At 100 Riksmynt, this was a high-denomination note by the standards of most Swedish workers of the period. Printed domestically in Stockholm rather than contracted abroad, as many smaller European states were then doing.