3 Riksdaler Specie Transport Banknote; Type 2

The Riksens Ständers Växel-Banco was not a royal institution — it was owned and guaranteed by the four Estates of the Swedish Riksdag, a constitutional arrangement that made it genuinely independent of the crown. That distinction mattered enormously during the turbulent reign of Gustav III, who was assassinated in 1792, and through the regency years that followed.

Transport notes of this series functioned as bearer instruments for transferring large sums between parties, distinct from the bank's ordinary circulation notes. The 25-year issuance window spanning 1787 to 1812 reflects continuous reuse of the plate design across several politically and economically disruptive decades, including Sweden's involvement in the Napoleonic Wars and the forced abdication of Gustav IV Adolf in 1809.