Catalog
5 Kronor
| Issuer | Göteborgs Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1877 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | GÖTEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK INLÖSER VID ANFORDRAN DENNA BILJETT MED FEM KRONOR GÖTEBORG 1877 Em. A |
| Reverse description | Printed in rose-red on cream paper, the reverse is composed entirely of dense ornamental letterpress work arranged symmetrically around a central rectangular panel bearing the inscription KRONOR in bold capitals. The figure 5 appears twice in large numerals flanking the central panel, set within elaborate interlocking guilloche rosette patterns. The issuer's name GÖTEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK is distributed around the upper and lower borders in curved lettering, framed by a continuous decorative border of geometric and floral motifs. |
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Göteborgs Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's provincial enskilda banks — private note-issuing institutions permitted under the 1824 and later 1855 banking legislation. Jacob Bagge was the dominant Stockholm printer for these provincial issues through the third quarter of the nineteenth century, supplying notes to multiple enskilda banks simultaneously, which occasionally produced near-identical typography across competing institutions.
The enskilda bank system was wound down following the Riksbank's consolidation of note-issuing authority, and most provincial paper was withdrawn and destroyed in the 1890s. Surviving 1877 Göteborg examples are genuinely uncommon.