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16⅔ Riksdaler Banco / 25 Riksdaler Riksgäld
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1836-1855 |
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| Currency | Riksdaler banco (1830-1855) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-tinted note with intaglio-printed dark brown vignette of a crowned lion couchant atop a globe beneath radiating sunburst at centre top, framed by an ornate engraved border with guilloche side panels. Central oval cartouche carries the denomination in calligraphic script, flanked by cursive bank text and silver specie clause; denomination numerals 16⅔ appear in oval frames at lower left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank inlöser vid anfordran denna Sedel å RDR 25 RDG Riksdr Sexton och Trettiotvå skill. Banco RDR 25 RDG med 6¼ Riksdaler Silfver Specie, enligt 1830 Års Mynt-fot. Stockholm den 28de Januari 1855 Den som denna Sedel efterapar eller förfalskar skall warda hängd. Men den som upptäcker Efteraparen, Förfalskaren eller Utprånglaren undfår belöning enligt Kongl. Kungörelsen af den 7 Julii 1818. 16⅔ 16⅔ (Translation: Sweden's Estates of the Realm Bank will pay, on demand, for this note 16⅔ Riksdaler Banco with 6¼ Riksdaler in silver specie according to the Year 1830 coinage standard. Those who mimic or forge this note shall be hanged. However, those who discover mimics, forgers or distributors will receive reward according to the royal proclamation of the 7th of July 1818.) |
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The dual-denomination inscription reflects a genuine monetary duality that plagued Sweden for decades. Banco and Riksgäld were parallel currencies — the former issued by the Riksbank and theoretically backed by silver, the latter originally an emergency war-finance instrument from the 1790s that had depreciated against it. By the time this note was printed, the fixed exchange rate of 2:3 between Riksgäld and Banco was statutory, hence both values appearing on a single piece of paper.
Sweden unified its currency with the 1855 monetary reform, which is precisely why this series ends that year.