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32 Skillingar Banco / 1 Riksdaler Riksgäld
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1836-1858 |
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| Value | 32 Skillingar Banco (⅔) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream-yellow paper stock with deckled edges. At upper centre, a vignette of a recumbent crowned lion resting on an orb, set within a radiating sunburst cartouche flanked by fine guilloche border panels. The denomination "Trettiotvå" (Thirty-Two) is rendered in bold script within a central dark oval panel, flanked by the words "Skillingr" and "Banco", with the equivalent value "Rdr 1 Rgd" repeated vertically in the left and right border panels. Two manuscript signatures appear across the lower centre of the note, with the date 1843 enclosed in an oval at foot, and a penal warning legend in small letterpress type along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting the plain cream-yellow paper surface on which the full obverse impression shows through in mirror image by transparency, including the lion vignette, guilloche borders, denomination text, and manuscript signatures, all visible in reverse as a consequence of the thin paper stock used. |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — later to become the Riksbank — issued this note during a period of deliberate monetary friction between two competing currency systems running in parallel: the Riksdaler Banco, backed by silver and managed by the bank, and the Riksdaler Riksgälds, a fiat currency originating from the debt notes of the Riksgäldskontoret, Sweden's national debt office. The exchange rate between them was fixed at 32 Skillingar Banco to 1 Riksdaler Riksgälds, which is precisely why this denomination exists at all — it is the conversion rate made physical.
The dual-denomination printing was a practical concession to a public forced to navigate both systems simultaneously until Sweden's currency unification in 1855 rationalized the mess into the single Riksdaler Riksmynt.