Sweden announces design motifs for new notes due in 2014

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.