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1000 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1874-1893 |
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| Value | 1000 Kronor (1000 SEK) |
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| Obverse lettering | Sweriges Riksbank inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å Ett Tusen Kronor med guldmynt enligt lagen om rikets mynt af den 30 Maj 1873 (Translation: Sweden's Riksbank will pay, on demand, for this note One Thousand Kronor in gold coin according to the law on the national coinage of 30th May 1873) |
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| Variants | P#6 - Specimen |
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Sveriges Riksbank's 1000 Kronor notes of this period occupied the absolute top of the Swedish paper money hierarchy at a time when 1000 kronor represented months of wages for most working Swedes. These were instruments of wholesale commerce and interbank settlement, not retail circulation — a distinction that matters for survival rates. Notes at this level were typically cancelled and returned to the Riksbank rather than worn out through hand-to-hand use.
The Riksbank had held the sole right of note issue in Sweden since 1897 in practice — but this series predates the formal consolidation, issued while several private enskilda banks still competed for the right. Printed domestically in Stockholm rather than contracted to one of the major foreign security printers then favored by smaller European states.