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33 1/3 Riksdaler Banco
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1836-1857 |
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| Currency | Riksdaler Banco (1777-1858) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by an elaborate engraved border with guilloche ornaments and the denomination 'Riksdr 50 Rikssp' repeated vertically along both side margins. At the top centre, a crowned lion reclining upon a globe beneath radiating sunbeams serves as the principal vignette, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The central text panel carries the issuer's name in copperplate script, the denomination in an oval cartouche flanked by 'Riksdr' and 'Banco', the silver specie conversion clause, the Stockholm date, and two manuscript signatures above a small '33⅓' numeral at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | No 82525 Litt. C |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Estates of the Realm Bank, precursor to Sveriges Riksbank — issued this denomination as part of a deliberately fractional system designed to bridge the gap between smaller and larger Riksdaler Banco notes. The 33⅓ figure is not an accounting oddity: it represents exactly one-third of 100 Riksdaler Banco, a clean fraction in a monetary framework still anchored to the old Swedish counting system where 48 skilling banco equaled one riksdaler.
The twenty-one-year emission window coincided with Sweden's prolonged transition away from the Banco monetary standard, which was formally replaced by the Riksdaler Riksmynt system in 1855 — rendering this denomination obsolete within two years of the series closing.