Sweden, 1941 AD., Sveriges Riksbank, 5 Kronor, World Paper Money 33x var., G 121449 Obverse.

State: Sweden
Issuer: Sveriges Riksbank
Location of issue: Stockholm
Date of issue: 1941
Value: 5 Kronor
Size: 121 x 70 mm
Material: paper
Watermark: head of Mercury in a cartouche in lower left corner; horizontal wave-lines elsewhere
Serial : G
Serial no. : 121449
Signatures: (2)
Printer: Riksbankens sedeltryckeri Kungsholmen (Sweden)
Obv.: … , Mother Svea - female personification of Sweden emblem of the Swedish nation seated on throne.
Rev.: … , Gustav Vasa within oval frame (King of Sweden from 1523 until 1560).
References: World Paper Money 33x var. ; BANK NOTE MUSEUM – (unlisted signatures) .

Gustav I (born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family; 12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), commonly known as Gustav Vasa, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Gustav rose to lead the Swedish War of Liberation following the Stockholm Bloodbath, where his father was executed. Gustav's election as king on 6 June 1523 (the National Day of Sweden) and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later marked Sweden's final secession from the Kalmar Union, a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by widowed Queen Margaret of Norway and Sweden. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland).