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1000 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of King Gustav I (Gustav Vasa, 1521–1560) at right, rendered in fine line engraving with a fur-trimmed garment and jewelled cap; a multicolour underprint vignette of a 16th-century Swedish townscape with church spires and harbour vessels fills the central background. The denomination numeral '1000' appears in large letterpress figures at lower right and lower left, with the legend 'ETT TUSEN KRONOR' across the top and 'SVERIGES RIKSBANK' at upper left alongside a vertically oriented blue-and-red guilloche security strip. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The P#67 1000 Kronor belongs to the third series of modern Riksbank notes, introduced progressively from 1985 onward. By 2005, the 1000 Kronor was the highest denomination in general Swedish circulation — unusual for a country where high-value transactions had already shifted substantially toward electronic payment. The Riksbank kept the note in production precisely because demand, though declining, remained real among older demographics and certain retail sectors.
The security package on this issue is notably thin by the standards of its peers — watermark and thread only, without the optically variable ink or holographic foil that neighboring central banks were incorporating at the time. A more hardened specification came with the entirely new polymer-based series launched in 2015, which effectively retired this issue.