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500 Riksdaler Riksmynt
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Value | 500 Riksdaler Riksmynt |
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| Obverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank INLÖSER, VID ANFORDRAN, DENNA SEDEL Å Riksdaler FEM HUNDRA Riksmynt med 125 Riksdaler i Silfver, eller 1000 Ort Tolf-lödigt mynadt silfver. Stockholm den 3 Januarii 1870 Nº000000 A |
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| Reverse lettering | Sveriges Riksbank Riksdaler FEM HUNDRA Riksmynt 500 |
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Sveriges Riksbank's 500 Riksdaler Riksmynt notes from this period were among the highest-denomination paper instruments in Swedish circulation before the country's monetary reform of 1873, which replaced the riksdaler system with the krona under the Scandinavian Monetary Union. A note of this value would have moved almost exclusively between commercial banks and major merchants — not retail trade.
The riksmynt designation itself is worth noting: it distinguished the decimal subdivision currency from the older riksdaler riksgälds, two parallel systems that had caused accounting confusion for decades before the 1855 consolidation settled the riksmynt as the standard.
P#144 is genuinely rare at this denomination; surviving examples in any condition are infrequently offered.