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Sveriges Riksbank, 1000 Kronor (1909, specimen)

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Original – Kingdom of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, 1000 kronor (1909), specimen. The allegory of Svea is on the front, and Gustav Vasa on the back. Also on the reverse is a handwritten notation approving the specimen for production, dated 15 July 1909.

Reason: High quality image, high EV. A series 1909 serial number 00000 specimen note, hand-signed and approved on the reverse
Articles in which the images appear: Swedish kronaverse.
FP category for this image: Currency
Creator: Sveriges Rikes Standers Bank
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Image by Godot13.

Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 07:05, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Can you not clean up (or get somebody to clean up) the back? It looks like it has been run over by a car in a barber's shop. Belle (talk) 07:35, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not sure there is anything to be cleaned- The wavy lines are the natural watermarking in the the paper (they appear slightly dark when scanned against a black background) and the fibers on the left side are silk threads embedded in the paper as an anti-counterfeiting measure. About cleaning up, I can't do that with museum objects, the image no longer serves an archival purpose.--Godot13 (talk) 07:45, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support Lovely view of the anti-counterfeiting measures on the rear in the classic "run over in a barber's shop" design of the Swedish Mint. Seamless back-pedalling, Belle, seamless. Belle (talk) 07:57, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:24, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – As old currency goes, rather bland-looking, IMO. Sca (talk) 14:11, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Sca- Certainly not as ornate as some others, but vintage Swedish krona are not readily illustrated. More importantly (to me), of the hundreds of specimen notes I've seen from scores of countries, this is the first I've come across with an approval comment written on the note.--Godot13 (talk) 17:02, 26 August 2015 (UTC) [reply]
  - Missed that detail. Interesting to numismatists, but.... Sca (talk) 21:31, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:27, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 09:31, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - DreamSparrow ^Chat 19:30, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 22:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:SWE-31-Sveriges Riksbank-1000 Kronor (1909, specimen).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:53, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]