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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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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with a blind-embossed circular official seal at upper centre and a handwritten serial number at upper right. The central text, rendered in ornate calligraphic script, states the obligation of Riksens Ständers Banco to pay fourteen Schillingar in copper currency, with the place and manuscript date 'Stockholm den 24 Febr. 1804' inscribed by hand. Below, the denomination is repeated in both Swedish ('Fjorton Koppar Schillingar') and Finnish ('Neljätoista Kummendä Kupari Skillingiä'), with a small-type legal warning clause at the foot of the note above two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sch. 14 uti Kopr. Emot denna Sedel, utbetalas af Riksens Ständers Banco, wid uppwisandet, Fjorton Schillingar, uti Koppar Skiljemynt. Stockholm den 24 Febr. 1804. FJORTON Koppar Schillingar. Neljätoista Kummendä Kupari Skillingiä. |
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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.