The General Council of Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has announced its choices for people and natural motifs to be featured on a new family of banknotes and coins:
| Denomination |
Portrait |
Nature and environment motifs |
| 20 krona |
Astrid Lindgren |
Småland |
| 50 krona |
Evert Taube |
Bohuslän |
| 100 krona |
Greta Garbo |
Stockholm |
| 200 krona |
Ingmar Bergman |
Gotland |
| 500 krona |
Birgit Nilsson |
Skåne |
| 1,000 krona |
Dag Hammarskjöld |
Lappland |
The notes are to be printed on cotton substrate, and will be slightly smaller than the existing series. All notes will be 66-mm tall, with lengths graduating from 120 to 154 mm.
The bank will conduct a design competition later this year, and barring intellectual property law problems, the first of the new notes is slated for release in 2014.
Courtesy of Sami Kiuru, Martin Maillot, Martin Rydberg, Marcus Jansson.