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5 Riksdaler Riksmynt
| Issuer | Bohus-Läns Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1869 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey note with the bank title 'BOHUS-LÄNS ENSKILDA BANK' in ornate Gothic lettering across the top, beneath which the obligation text 'inlöser vid anfordran denna sedel med' is printed in letterpress. At left, an intaglio vignette of a standing female allegorical figure accompanied by a ship and anchor, flanked by the denomination numeral '5'; at right, a circular guilloche medallion encloses a large '5'. The place and date 'Uddevalla 1869' appear centrally, with two manuscript signatures below and the series and serial designation 'Litt. B' at lower left; a large red diagonal cancellation overprint 'PREVALIDZ' traverses the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | BOHUS-LÄNS ENSKILDA BANK FEM 5 |
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Bohus-Läns Enskilda Bank was one of the Swedish provincial private banks authorized under the 1824 banking reforms, operating out of Gothenburg's northern hinterland. These enskilda banks had the legal right to issue their own notes, a privilege that made regional commerce viable but also produced a chaotic patchwork of competing paper currencies across Sweden — by the 1860s there were over thirty such issuers active simultaneously.
The Riksdaler Riksmynt denomination itself had a short window of relevance: introduced in 1855 to replace the Riksdaler Banco, it was superseded when Sweden adopted the gold-based Krona in 1873. An 1869-dated note like this one was issued just four years before the entire denomination class was retired.