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12 Skilling Banco
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque (Bank of Sweden) |
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| Year | 1834-1849 |
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| Value | 12 Skilling Banco (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface letterpress note printed in black on plain paper stock, entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette. The denomination 'Sch: 12 B:co.' is set in large Gothic blackletter type at the head, followed by the full Swedish-language promise text and the issuance place-date line 'Stockholm den' completed in manuscript; below, the denomination is restated bilingually in Swedish and Finnish, succeeded by a small-print anti-counterfeiting warning paragraph citing the Royal Proclamation of July 1819, with two manuscript signatories at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is blank save for the ghost impression of the obverse letterpress text bleeding through the thin paper stock in mirror image, consistent with the uniface construction of this issue; the denomination 'Sch: 12 B:co.' and body text are faintly legible in reverse, and a manuscript serial number notation is partially visible along the upper edge. |
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Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque — the Estates of the Realm's Exchange Bank — was one of the oldest central banking institutions in the world, tracing its origins to 1668. By the 1830s it was still operating under parliamentary oversight rather than royal control, a constitutional arrangement that made the Swedish central bank structurally unlike virtually any other in Europe at the time.
The skilling banco denomination places this note within Sweden's pre-decimal monetary system, which persisted until the riksdaler riksmynt reform of 1855. Twelve skilling was a fractional workhorse value — useful in daily commerce but rarely saved, which accounts for why surviving examples from this fifteen-year issue window are genuinely hard to locate in respectable condition.