Msek förkortning
It is one of the currencies of the European Union. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use for the krona; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it but, especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value. In English, the currency is sometimes referred to as the Swedish crown , as krona means " crown " in Swedish.
The Swedish krona was the ninth-most traded currency in the world by value in April One krona is subdivided into öre singular; plural öre or ören , where the former is always used after a cardinal number, hence "50 öre", but otherwise the latter is often preferred in contemporary speech. Coins as small as 1 öre were formerly in use, but the last coin smaller than 1 krona was discontinued in Goods can still be priced in öre , but all sums are rounded to the nearest krona when paying with cash.
The word öre is ultimately derived from the Latin word for gold aurum.
vad är msek och tsek
The introduction of the krona, which replaced the riksdaler at par , was a result of the Scandinavian Monetary Union , which came into effect in and lasted until the beginning of World War I. The parties to the union were the Scandinavian countries, where the name was krona in Sweden and krone in Denmark and Norway , which in English literally means "crown". The mutual equivalence of all three currencies ended in World War I when their convertibility to gold was suspended.
While their gold parities remained during most of the interwar period, these currencies were generally quoted at varying market rates. On 11 September , the Riksbank announced a new series of coins with new sizes to replace the 1-krona and 5-kronor coins; the new coins arrived in October This also included the reintroduction of the 2-kronor coin, while the current kronor coin remained the same.
The new coins also have a new portrait of the king in their design.
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One of the reasons for a new series of coins was to end the use of nickel for allergy reasons. Between and , coins in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 öre and 1, 2, 10, and 20 kronor were introduced. The 1, 2 and 5 öre were in bronze, the 10, 25, 50 öre and 1 krona and 2 kronor were in silver, and the 10 and 20 kronor were in gold.
Gold 5-kronor coins were added in In the Scandinavian Monetary Union currency was fixed so that 2, kronor purchased 1 kg of gold. In the price of gold is , kronor per kg.
Vad betyder msek?
So one öre in bought as much gold as 1. So if it is reasonable to have the smallest denomination coin 1 krona today, in a reasonable smallest denomination coin was 1 öre. A 10 kr gold coin weighed 4. In , production of gold coins ceased, and was briefly restarted in and before ceasing entirely. Due to metal shortages during World War I , iron replaced bronze between and Nickel-bronze replaced silver in the 10, 25 and 50 öre in , with silver returning in Between and , the nickel-bronze 10, 25 and 50 öre were again issued.
MSEK: Miljoner svenska kronor
In , iron again replaced bronze until and the silver content of the other coins was reduced. In , cupronickel replaced silver in the öre, öre and öre coins. In , the 2-kronor switched to cupronickel and the 1-krona switched to cupronickel-clad copper it was replaced entirely by cupronickel in Nonetheless, all previous mintages of the 1-krona since and 2-kronor since were still legal tender until , though 2-kronor coins were extremely rarely seen in circulation as they have not been issued since In , and , 5-kronor silver coins were produced, with designs similar to contemporary 1-krona and 2-kronor coins.
In , a new, smaller 5-kronor coin was introduced, struck in cupronickel-clad nickel. The current design has been produced since