Monday, February 16, 2015

Now you wiggle your notes – Göteborgs-Posten

Now you wiggle your notes – Göteborgs-Posten

The new Swedish banknotes has two themes: Swedish people who have made great cultural contributions and Swedish natural and environmental motives.

Denomination Personal Nature and Environment motifs

20 crowns Astrid Lindgren Smaland

$ 50 Evert Taube Bohuslän

$ 100 Greta Garbo Stockholm

200 crowns Ingmar Bergman Gotland

SEK 500 Birgit Nilsson Scania

1A 000. Dag Hammarskjold Lapland

In October 2015 released the 20, 50, 200- and 1000-kronor notes.

In October 2016 released the 100- and 500- krona notes and 1-, 2- and 5-crown.

A total of 300 million banknotes and about two billion coins replaced when only tiokronan remains.

The change of cash estimated to cost The Riksbank approximately SEK 150 million.

The old banknotes are burned, the coins are sold as scrap and metal is recycled.

Total estimated current coins weigh about 15 000 tonnes.

Source: The Riksbank

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