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24 Schillingar / Skillingiä
| Issuer | Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor |
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| Year | 1793-1804 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 24 Schillingar Uti Riksens Ständers Riksgälds Contor är insatt en Summa af Tjugufyra Schillingar, hwilka 24 Schillingar Innehafwaren häraf har at återbekomma. Stockholm d. 19 [?] 1794. Tjugufyra Schill. Kapitvmmendå nelja Stillingiä. Den som denne Sedel eftersapar skall warda hängd, men den som bewijtligen upräcler efteraparen undfår en Belöning af Trehundra Riksdaler. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the faint mirror impression of the obverse letterpress text bleeding through the thin paper stock, with no independently printed design elements. A manuscript serial number is visible in the upper area, and the surface shows the characteristic foxing and fold marks consistent with heavy circulation of an early nineteenth-century Swedish note. |
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The Riksgäldskontoret — the National Debt Office — was created by the Swedish Riksdag in 1789 specifically to finance Gustav III's ruinously expensive war against Russia. Unable to fund the conflict through the Riksbank, which the Riksdag's rival Estate factions controlled, the king effectively created a parallel paper money system under direct parliamentary authority. These Riksgälds notes were the result, and they circulated alongside Riksbank notes at a discount for decades, creating a two-currency confusion that plagued Swedish commerce well into the nineteenth century.
The 24 Skilling denomination sat at an awkward intermediary value in the Swedish skilling system of the period. Notes of this series were printed in Stockholm by the Kontoret's own facilities.