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6⅔ Riksdaler Banco / 10 Riksdaler Riksgäld
| Issuer | Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank |
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| Year | 1835-1856 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with the Swedish lesser coat of arms at top centre, a lion couchant beneath. Text panels carry the denomination, issuing authority, and legal tender inscriptions in period typeface, with the fractional value '6⅔' set apart. A stern anti-counterfeiting warning in Gothic-influenced script runs along the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Blank verso; the obverse letterpress impression is partially visible in mirror image through the paper stock, a characteristic of the thin rag paper used in this issue. |
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The fractional face value — 6⅔ Riksdaler Banco — exists because of the fixed conversion rate between Sweden's two parallel currencies: one Riksdaler Banco equaled exactly 1½ Riksdaler Riksgäld, making 6⅔ Banco precisely equal to 10 Riksgäld. Both values were printed on the same note to satisfy a public that dealt in either unit depending on context. The dual-denomination format wasn't a design choice; it was a legal necessity imposed by the coexistence of two distinct monetary systems that Sweden refused to unify until 1855.
Sveriges Rikes Ständers Bank — the precursor to the Riksbank — was itself a parliamentary institution, owned by the Estates rather than the Crown, which made it structurally unlike nearly any other central bank in Europe at the time.