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16 Schillingar Banco / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque |
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| Year | 1834-1849 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note on aged paper with a serial number in manuscript at the upper centre prefixed by 'No'. The central text block, set in a mix of Gothic blackletter and script typefaces, carries the bank promise text in Swedish and Finnish, with the denomination 'Sch: 16 B.co.' at the top and the place and handwritten date 'Stockholm den [date] 1836' within the body. Below the main promise text a smaller legal warning clause appears, with the denomination repeated in full as 'Sexton Schillingar Banco / Kuusitoista Kymmendä Skillingiä' and two manuscript signatures at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted save for the serial number prefix 'No' in manuscript at the upper right and the denomination line 'Sch: 16 B.co.' visible in mirror impression from the obverse text, a result of the single-sided typeset production method. The surface shows the natural laid paper texture with age toning consistent with early nineteenth-century Swedish banknote stock. |
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The Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque — the Estates of the Realm's Exchange Bank — was among the oldest state-backed banks in Europe, tracing its origins to 1668. By the 1834 issue date of this series, it was operating under increasing pressure to rationalize a currency system built on the archaic Banco schilling, a unit with no direct parity to the parallel riksdaler specie coinage circulating simultaneously. The dual-language denomination text, Swedish and Finnish, reflects the political reality of the Swedish realm following the 1809 loss of mainland Finland to Russia — the Grand Duchy retained Swedish as an administrative language, but these notes circulated within Sweden proper, not across the border.
The series ran until 1849, when Sweden's currency reforms began consolidating denominations ahead of the eventual decimalization of 1855.