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2 Riksdaler Banco / Riikin Daleria Banco
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque |
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| Year | 1834-1836 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed entirely in letterpress on aged cotton paper, with the denomination expressed in ornate script as "Nº 2 Bco." at centre. The body of the note carries a formal Swedish-language text obligation in period gothic script, with the handwritten date "19 Oct 1835" inserted in manuscript. Below the main text, the denomination is restated in both Swedish and Finnish: "Två riksdaler Banco" and "Kaki riikin Daleria Banco", with two manuscript signatures at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 10640 Nº 2 Bco. Uti Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque äro af Gedelhafwaren insatte Twå riksdaler Banco, hwilka emot denna Sedel skola utbetalas. Stockholm d. 19 Oct 1835. Twå riksdaler Banco. Kaki riikin Daleria Banco. |
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The Riksens Ständers Wäxel-Banque — the Estates of the Realm's Exchange Bank — was a genuinely unusual institution: a central bank governed not by the crown but by the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag. This note's bilingual Swedish-Finnish heading reflects the administrative reach of a Swedish state that still governed Finland as a grand duchy under Russian suzerainty after 1809, though the Finnish-language text carried no legal standing in Finland itself, where a separate monetary system was already developing.
The Riksdaler Banco was itself an accounting unit distinct from the Riksdaler Riksgälds, and the two traded at a fixed but politically contentious ratio of 2:3 — a distinction that confused contemporaries and still trips up collectors today.