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50 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1874-1879 |
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| Currency | Krona (1873-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | SVERIGES RIKSBANK inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å FEMTIO KRONOR med guldmynt enligt lagen om rikets mynt af den 30 Maj 1873. Stockholm den 2 Januarii 1880 FEMTIO KRONOR 50 KRONOR FEMTIO |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, with the impression of the obverse printing visible in mirror image through the paper. |
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Sveriges Riksbank had been issuing notes since the 1660s — arguably the oldest central bank note-issuing tradition in the world — but the 1874 series represented a formal rationalisation of the emission system following the Scandinavian Monetary Union agreement of that same year. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway aligned their currencies on a shared gold standard, and new notes were needed that reflected the redesignated Krona/Kronor denominations replacing the old Riksdaler system.
At the 50 Kronor level, surviving examples from this five-year window are genuinely rare. The series had a short effective life before successive redesigns, and redemption compliance was high.