Swedish Krona in Costa Rican Colon

SEK Swedish Krona

Country of application:
Sweden

Coin denominations in circulation:
10, 5, 1 krone.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
1,000, 500, 100, 50 and 20 kroons.

History reference:
The krone is the currency of Sweden. The Swedish krona was introduced into circulation in 1873, as a result of the formation of the Scandinavian Monetary Union, which lasted until the First World War.... The new monetary unit replaced the riksdaler that had been in circulation before. The Scandinavian countries became members of the union, with the name of the currency krona in Sweden and krone in Denmark and Norway, which means “crown” in Scandinavian languages. After the collapse of this association, all three countries decided to keep the name, but for their own currencies. By tradition, on the front side of a coin in denominations of one crown, a portrait of the monarch of Sweden is depicted, and on the reverse side one of the coats of arms of Sweden, or a crown. The coin also bears the kings motto.

CRC Costa Rican Colon

Country of application:
Costa Rica

Coin denominations in circulation:
10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 columns.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 colones.

History reference:
The currency, named after Christopher Columbus or, in the Spanish manner, Cristobal Colon, came out with a content of 0.7002 grams of pure gold in October 1896. The colon replaced the Costa Rican pes...o and was parity with the US dollar at 2.15:1. The Costa Rican colón was adopted as the national currency in 1896, about 70 years after Costa Rica and its Central American neighbors declared independence from Spain. Colón replaced the Costa Rican peso with a one-to-one exchange rate. The former currency of the peso, a legacy of the colonial era, was divided into eight Spanish reais.