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16 Schillingar / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor |
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| Year | 1792-1834 |
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| Currency | Riksdaler (1777-1855) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with text set in ornate blackletter and italic script. The denomination '16 Schillingar' appears as a large decorative heading at the top, followed by the full issuer text in Swedish, with the place and manuscript date 'Stockholm d. 9 Juni 1796' inscribed in ink. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion of the note, with a further handwritten serial number at the top. |
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| Reverse lettering | 16 Sch. 16 Sch. |
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The Riksgäldskontoret — the National Debt Office, not the Riksbank — became an emergency issuer of paper money during Sweden's financially ruinous wars of the late eighteenth century. Its notes circulated in parallel with Riksbank currency, creating a two-track paper system that confused commerce and drove Swedish monetary policy into decades of dysfunction. The 16 Schillingar denomination sits in the fractional range that saw the heaviest everyday use, which means survivors in any decent state are genuinely hard to find.
The bilingual denomination line, Swedish and Finnish, reflects the political reality of the Swedish realm before the 1809 loss of Finland to Russia.