Catalog
5 Kronor
| Issuer | Christinehamns Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1876 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on white cotton paper with a symmetrical typographic layout. A central oval vignette at the top displays a sailing vessel flanked by two allegorical figures, set within an elaborate guilloche border. The bank name in ornate script runs across the centre, with the denomination expressed both in words (FEM) within a central cartouche and in figures (5) at the lower centre, flanked by decorative vertical panels repeating the value; the place and date of issue, Christinehamn, 1876, appear below the central cartouche alongside three manuscript signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse reproduces the same typographic and guilloche design as the obverse but is printed in mirror image, showing the back impression of the intaglio-printed text and vignette through the paper. The central cartouche with FEM and the flanking decorative vertical panels bearing the numeral 5 are clearly visible, along with the repeated border text of the bank name running along all four margins. |
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Christinehamns Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's smaller provincial enskilda banks — private note-issuing institutions authorized under the 1824 and later 1855 banking legislation. By 1876 the system was already under pressure; the Riksbank had been pushing for a monopoly on note issuance for years, and most enskilda banks lost that right definitively with the 1897 Riksbank Act. A note from Christinehamn, a modest industrial town on Lake Vänern, reflects exactly the kind of regional issuer that disappeared entirely within a generation.
Pick 145 is thinly documented in major reference collections, suggesting low survival rates — unsurprising given that redemption and destruction of private bank notes was thorough once the Riksbank consolidation took hold.