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16 Schillingar / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Riksgälds-Contoir |
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| Year | 1791-1792 |
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| Currency | Riksdaler (1777-1803) |
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| Obverse lettering | No Schillingar 16 Schillingar Uti Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contoir, är insatt en Summa af Sexton Schillingar, hvilka Sexton Schillingar Innehafwaren har återbekomma Stockholm den 29 Julii 1791 Säger 16 Schillingar Maraa Kuusitoista kymmendä Stillingiä. på Riksens Ständers Riksgälds-Contoirs wägnar |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of cream-toned cotton paper, showing heavy fold lines from circulation and tape repairs at the central cross-fold. The surface is bare of any printed text or vignette, with only wear, staining, and a faint manuscript annotation visible in the lower right corner. |
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The Riksens Ständers Riksgälds-Contoir — the Swedish National Debt Office, established by the Riksdag in 1789 — was created specifically to finance Gustav III's costly and unpopular war against Russia. These notes were issued under emergency fiscal pressure, not as ordinary banking currency, and the dual-language denomination reflects the Swedish-Finnish administrative reality of the realm at the time.
The 16 skilling denomination sits in an awkward middle register that saw heavy transactional use, making survivors in decent condition genuinely uncommon. Cotton paper of this period is prone to fold fatigue at the intersections.