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5 Kronor
| Issuer | Christinehamns Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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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 lettering | Christinehamns Enskilda Bank infrier vid anfordran denna sedel med Kronor FEM Kronor Christinehamn, 1876 Litt. A |
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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.