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SWEDEN

Liabilities

The Riksbank

Other Banks

Total

Original subscribed capital

Notes in circulation

Bank post bills in circulation

Current accounts

Deposit accounts ....

Deposit on savings bank accounts

Liabilities to Swedish banks

Liabilities to Foreign banks

Kronor

50,000,000

759,877,200

5,360,841

171,578,843

300

4,898.871

13,362,945

Kronor 601,233,650 513,361,621

168,414,850

1,231,013,171

2.,"v r ,4.(l22,204

959,701,792

429,688,586

1 54,962,558 127,439,546 686,828,922

Kronor 651,233,650 525,s5l,621 759,877,260 168,755,091 1,458,132,014 2,854',02&,504 959,701.702 429,688,586 149,800,929 127,430,540 600,191,867

1,017,518,560

7,662,256,900

8,079,775,400

The savings-banks statistics (exclusive of Post Office) are as follows :-

Number of depositors at end of year Deposits at end of year, kronor Capital and reserve fund, ditto.

1917

1918

1,893,9011 1,987,194, 2,106,880

1, 207, 257,344'l,482,955,4S0'l, 023,660,373

92,308,653; 97,851, 541 j 101,706,842

1919

At the end of 1919 the Post Office Savings Bank had 660,000 depositors and 83,022,137 kronor of deposits.

The Private and Joint-Stock Banks also act as Savings Banks. Their statistics of depositors and deposits are as follows : —

Number of depositors at end of year Deposit* at end of year, kronor

1,592,969 659,716,490

1,061,060 887,120,922

1,833,762 960,571,800

1920

1,041,34$

959,701, 7'.'2

Money, Weights, and Measures.

By a treaty signed May 27, 1873, with additional treaty of October 16, 1875, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark adopted the same monotary system.

The Swedish Krona, of 100 ore, is of the value of 1*. \\d., or about 18 kronor to the pound sterling.

The gold 20-kronor piece weighs 8 960572 grammes, '900 fine, containing 8 '0645 grammes of fine gold, and the silver krona weighs 7 '5 grammes, '800 fine, containing 6 grammes of fine silver. Iron coins were issued in 1917, 1918, and 1919.

The standard of value is gold. National Bank notes for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 1000 kronor are legal means of payment, and the Bank is bound to exchange them for gold on presentation. The 1 kronor notes have been issued since September, 1914.

No gold coins were made at the Swedish mint during 191 9, but 24,076,160 silver, bronze, and iron coins, with a nominal value of 1,903,434 kronor, were issued in 1919. It is intended gradually to withdraw the iron coins.

The metric system of weights and measures is obligatory.