Catalog
14 Koppar Schillingar / Kupari Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco |
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| Year | 1803-1804 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
| Protection description | Blind-embossed circular official seal of Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco impressed into the paper at upper centre of the note. |
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Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banco — the Estates of the Realm Exchange Bank — was one of the oldest central banking institutions in the world, tracing its origins to 1668. By 1803, it was operating under severe strain: Sweden had been at near-continuous war and the copper-denominated schilling notes were a legacy of the old plåtmynt accounting system, where copper remained the nominal monetary anchor long after it had ceased to function as one in practice.
The embossed dry seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — ink printing alone was considered insufficient for low-denomination issues vulnerable to local forgery.