1000 Kronor

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.