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500 Riksdaler Riksmynt
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1859 |
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| Currency | Riksdaler Riksmynt (1855-1873) |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank RIKSDALER 500 RIKSMYNT inlöser, vid anfordran, denna sedel å Riksdaler FEM HUNDRA Riksmynt med 125 Riksdaler i Silfver, eller 1000 Ort Tolf-lödigt myntatdt silfver. Stockholm den 3 Januari 1859 500 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is a mirror-image impression of the obverse design, printed in the same black-on-pale-green guilloche scheme, producing a see-through registration effect typical of mid-19th-century Swedish banknote printing. The royal coat of arms with flanking lions and crown appears at the top center, and the denomination oval cartouche with 'FEM HUNDRA' is visible in reverse at center. All inscriptions and numerals appear as laterally inverted counterparts to the obverse, consistent with the back-printing technique used to deter counterfeiting. |
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Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the Estates of the Realm Bank, forerunner to the Riksbank — issued this 500 Riksdaler Riksmynt note during the transitional decade when Sweden was standardizing its currency ahead of the eventual adoption of the Riksdaler Riksmynt as the sole unit of account. The 1855 monetary reform had separated the Riksmynt from the older Banco system, and high-denomination notes like this one functioned almost exclusively in commercial and institutional transactions, rarely touching ordinary trade.
Back-printing registration as a security measure was rudimentary by later standards, but adequate for a denomination that circulated only among merchants and banks who scrutinized their paper carefully. Surviving examples are scarce simply because so few were ever printed.