Catalog
5 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1890-1905 |
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| Reference(s) | P#14 |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å Fem Kronor med guldmynt enligt lagen om rikets mynt af den 30 Mai 1873 (Translation: Sweden's Riksbank will pay, on demand, for this note Five Kronor in gold coin according to the law on the national coinage of 30th May 1873) |
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| Reverse lettering | SVERIGES RIKSBANK |
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Sveriges Riksbank issued this series during a period of sustained monetary stability under the Scandinavian Monetary Union, which linked Sweden, Denmark, and Norway to a shared gold standard from 1873. The union effectively made Danish and Norwegian kroner interchangeable with Swedish kronor at par — an arrangement that held, more or less cleanly, until the First World War disrupted it entirely.
Pick 14 is among the scarcer low-denomination Riksbank issues of the period. Small-value notes circulated hard and were rarely preserved. The fifteen-year issue window explains some date variety, but surviving examples with early dates from the 1890s are noticeably harder to find than those dated after 1900.