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5 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1879-1890 |
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| Value | 5 Kronor (5 SEK) |
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| Obverse description | Intricate guilloche borders frame the entire note in a reddish-brown intaglio print, with the issuer name SVERIGES RIKSBANK in large letters across the upper field beneath a royal crown vignette. The denomination FEM and numeral 5 appear in bold letterpress within elaborate guilloche panels at centre and corners, flanked by the word KRONOR on either side. The redemption clause in cursive script runs across the middle field, with two manuscript signatures and the issue year at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Engraved in green intaglio on a solid guilloche ground, the reverse centres on a large crowned royal arms vignette above an oval cartouche enclosing three crowns — the Swedish national emblem — surrounded by a wreath. The issuer name SVERIGES RIKSBANK appears in two arched lines beneath the crown at top, while the denomination numeral 5 and KRONOR are set in a rectangular panel at the base. Smaller crowned shield vignettes occupy the four corners, and a continuous micro-text band reading SVERIGES RIKSBANK borders the lower margin. |
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Sveriges Riksbank had been issuing notes since 1668, making it the world's oldest central bank, but by the 1870s the note-issuing framework was in serious flux. The Riksbank Act of 1897 would eventually consolidate its monopoly, but during the 1879–1890 window this series operated under an older, more permissive regime that still coexisted awkwardly with competing private bank circulation.
Pick 8 is among the scarcer of the nineteenth-century Swedish issues in collectible condition — the low face value meant heavy use and high attrition rates, and few survived the subsequent currency exchanges intact.