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12 Schillingar Banco / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque |
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| Year | 1834-1849 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Sch: 12 B:co. Tolf Schillingar Banco äro uti Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque insatte, som Sedelhafwaren emot denna Sedel af Banquen utbefommer. Stockholm den Tolf Schillingar Banco. Karitoisita Kymmendä Skillingiä. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and bears only manuscript endorsements, dates, and handwritten notations accumulated during the note's circulation, consistent with early nineteenth-century Swedish banknote practice. The text from the obverse is visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock. No printed design elements are present on this side. |
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The Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque — the Estates of the Realm's Exchange Bank — was the Swedish parliamentary bank that eventually became Sveriges Riksbank, making it one of the oldest central banks in the world. By the 1830s it was issuing notes in the old *skilling banco* denomination system, a unit tied to the banco standard rather than the specie standard, which created persistent confusion in everyday commerce since the two did not exchange at par.
The bilingual denomination — Swedish and Finnish — reflects the political reality of the period: Finland had been ceded to Russia in 1809 but Swedish-language banking instruments continued to circulate there under separate arrangements. The 12 skilling banco denomination was a workhorse of small transactions, and surviving examples from the full fifteen-year run of this type show considerable variation in manuscript dating and cashier signatures.