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12 Schillingar Specie / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco |
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| Year | 1802-1834 |
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| Value | 12 Schillingar Specie |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with manuscript serial number at upper centre reading 'No' followed by a handwritten numeral. The denomination 'Sch. 12 Sp:' is set in a larger script typeface at the top of the text block, above several lines of printed Swedish text in Gothic blackletter script acknowledging the deposit of twelve Schillingar Specie at the Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco in Stockholm, with a manuscript date of 10 August 1802. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower right, accompanied by a small printed anti-counterfeiting notice referencing the Royal Ordinance of 20 December 1754. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing heavy show-through of the obverse text in mirror image, consistent with the thin, aged cotton/linen paper stock used for early nineteenth-century Swedish banco notes. A manuscript endorsement in Swedish script appears at the lower portion, along with two additional handwritten signatures, indicating the note circulated and was endorsed during its use. The upper left corner bears pencil notations likely added by a later collector. |
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Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco — the Estates of the Realm Exchange Bank — was among the oldest central banking institutions in Europe, having roots in the Stockholms Banco founded in 1656. By the early nineteenth century it operated alongside the competing Riksgäldskontoret, and the two institutions issued parallel paper currencies that Swedes were obliged to treat as equivalent despite persistent market discounts against the Riksgäld notes. This 12 Schillingar denomination sits in that contested monetary environment.
The bilingual denomination — Swedish and Finnish — reflects the administrative reality of a Swedish realm that still included Finland until 1809, when Russia seized it following the Finnish War.