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50 Kronor
| Issuer | Mälare Provinsernas Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1894 |
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| Value | 50 Kronor |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with ornate guilloche borders and numeral '50' at each corner. At left, a seated allegorical female figure with a child, rendered in fine line engraving, is set against a radiating fan-shaped guilloche underprint at centre. The denomination 'FEMTIO KRONOR' appears in bold letterpress across the middle, flanked by decorative column vignettes; the issuer name 'MÄLARE PROVINSERNAS ENSKILDA BANK' is inscribed across the upper panel, with the date 'WESTERÅS 1894' and series/serial designation 'Litt A' below. |
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| Reverse description | Uniformly green intaglio-printed reverse with an elaborate guilloche border of floral and geometric motifs filling the entire surface. At centre, an oval portrait vignette presents a bearded male figure in period dress with a lace collar, engraved in fine detail. The inscriptions 'MÄLARE PROVINSERNAS' and 'ENSKILDA BANK' are distributed in arched lettering above and below the central vignette, with the numeral '50' repeated in each corner within ornamental frames. The printer's imprint 'BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO ENGRAVERS LONDON' appears in small text at the lower margin. |
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Mälare Provinsernas Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's provincial private banks operating under the enskilda bank system, which permitted individual banks to issue their own notes — a right systematically stripped away after the Riksbank consolidation process accelerated through the 1890s. By 1904, the last enskilda banks had lost their right of issue entirely, making 1894 a late date in the lifespan of this institution's paper.
Bradbury, Wilkinson handled a notable volume of Scandinavian provincial bank work during this period. Their intaglio engraving was specifically chosen to resist the increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting that had plagued Swedish private bank notes through the middle decades of the century.