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1000 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1909-1917 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å Ett Tusen 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 Thousand Kronor in gold coin according to the law on the national coinage of 30th May 1873) |
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| Reverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank Ett Tusen Kronor |
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The P#31 1000 Kronor series was the highest denomination in everyday Riksbank circulation during a period when Sweden was navigating the strains of World War One neutrality — enormous trade imbalances with both the Entente and Central Powers pushed large volumes of capital through the banking system, and notes of this value moved frequently between institutions rather than through retail hands.
Sveriges Riksbank had been issuing notes without a formal gold convertibility guarantee since the suspension of 1914, a policy shift that made high-denomination paper far more politically charged than it had been a decade earlier. The 1909 start date places the earliest examples squarely in the pre-war metallic standard period, meaning the same printed design circulated across two fundamentally different monetary regimes.