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50 Kronor
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1874-1879 |
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| Value | 50 Kronor (50 SEK) |
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| Obverse description | Orange letterpress note with an intricate guilloche underprint centering the large bold denomination text "FEMTIO KRONOR" in intaglio. The Swedish royal arms appear at the top centre beneath a crown, flanked by serial numbers repeated twice in the upper field. The bottom panel carries the denomination repeated in full across both lower corners, with the place and date of issue and two manuscript signatures below the central text block. |
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| 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.