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16 2/3 Riksdaler Banco
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1836-1855 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank Inlöser vid anfordran denna Sedel å Riksdr. Sexton Banco och Trettiotvå skill. med 6⅔ Riksdr Silver Specie, enligt 1830 Års Mynt-Fot. Stockholm den 28e Januarii 1855 16⅔ No 55636 Litt. O |
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| Reverse lettering | No 55636 Litt. O |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Riksdag's own bank, predecessor to the Riksbank — issued this note in an awkward denomination that only makes sense within the older Swedish currency arithmetic. Sixteen and two-thirds Riksdaler Banco equalled exactly one-quarter of the base unit in a higher reckoning, a holdover from the multi-tiered relationship between Riksdaler Banco, Riksdaler Riksgälds, and Riksdaler Specie that plagued Swedish monetary accounting well into the nineteenth century.
The denomination disappeared when Sweden decimalized and unified its currency system in 1855, which marks the hard end of this series.