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Swedish Currency

  • Period: to

    Coins were introduced.

    Between 1873 and 1876, coins in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 öre and 1, 2, 10, and 20 kronor were introduced. The 1, 2 and 5 öre were in bronze, the 10, 25, 50 öre and 1 krona and 2 kronor were in silver, and the 10 and 20 kronor were in gold. Gold 5 kronor coins were added in 1881.
  • First bills were introduced

    In 1874 the first bills were introduced by the Riksbank.
  • Gold coins ceased

    The production of gold coins ceased,
  • 5 Kronor

    5 Kronor
  • 10 Kronor

    10 Kronor
  • 10 Kronor coins

    In 1991 the 10 kronor coins were introduced as legal coins.
  • 1 Krona

    1 Krona
  • 1000 kronor bill.

    In 2006, the Riksbank introduced a new 1000 kronor bill.
  • Period: to

    The great fall

    Between the second half of 2008 and the first half of 2009 the krona had been oscillating between 10.4–11 per EUR
  • 50 öre disappears

    The 50 öres coins disappears because of the lower power, higher production and distribution cost than the value and because of the coins cannot be used in most parking machines and vending machines