2 Riksdaler Banco / Riikin Daleria Banco

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.