We introduce important financiers from the 17th c. to the present, explaining trade with foreign countries, presenting our first banks - Stockholm Banco and Rikets Ständers Bank. The National Bank of Sweden is the world’s oldest central bank (from 1668). It has an interesting background, where bank notes, currency reserve, gold standard and repo rates are part of a multi-faceted history.
The bank note is a Swedish innovation from the 1660s, and was first issued by the Stockholm Banco. Apart from the National Bank of Sweden 31 private banks have also issued bank notes. Samples of these notes are exhibited. The world’s largest coin is also on display, the huge copper plate money from the 17th c., weighing 19.7 kilos!
400 years of state budgets and taxation of the Swedish public are always topical and never-ending subjects. The exhibit presents salaries, wages, and prices from the 17th c. to the present. The credit market has an interesting history. Banks of the past and present are presented. The stock exchange and the stock market are substantially displayed. Exquisite share certificates from the 19th and 20th c. are exhibited, as well as the golden age of industry in the 1800s, and financial crises from the death of Ivar Kreuger to the interest breakdown in 1992.