Catalog
500 Kronor
| Issuer | Göteborgs Enskilda Bank |
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| Year | 1878 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey intaglio-printed note with an elaborate guilloche border enclosing the central text field; an oval vignette at left carries a portrait bust of a nobleman in period attire with a ruff collar, while a crowned heraldic shield occupies a corresponding oval at right. The denomination '500' appears within ornate cartouches at each corner, and the issuer's name is set in large letterpress across the upper centre above the value legend in bold Gothic script. The note is dated Göteborg, 1878, with series and number designations in the lower portion of the text block. |
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| Reverse lettering | GÖTEBORGS ENSKILDA BANK FEM HUNDRA KRONOR 500 SPECIMEN |
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Göteborgs Enskilda Bank was one of Sweden's private note-issuing banks operating under the 1824 banking ordinance that permitted provincial enskilda banks to circulate their own paper currency. This arrangement persisted until the Riksbank gradually absorbed note-issuing rights through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — the 1897 Riksbank Act being the decisive blow — leaving issues from banks like Göteborg's as a finite, closed series.
At 500 kronor, this is among the highest denominations produced by any Swedish enskilda bank, intended for wholesale and interbank settlement rather than everyday commerce. Such notes rarely left counting houses.