Swedish krona
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The krona (Swedish: [ˈkrûːna] ⓘ; plural: kronor; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the official currency of the Kingdom of Sweden. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; 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 2016.[3]
| svensk krona (Swedish) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| ISO 4217 | |||||
| Code | SEK (numeric: 752) | ||||
| Subunit | 0.01 | ||||
| Unit | |||||
| Plural | kronor | ||||
| Symbol | kr | ||||
| Nickname | spänn, riksdaler, crowns (English), lax/lakan/lök, bagare/bagis (rarely used these days)(1000 kr), röding (500 kr) | ||||
| Denominations | |||||
| Subunit | |||||
| 1⁄100 | öre | ||||
| Plural | |||||
| öre | öre/ören | ||||
| Banknotes | |||||
| Freq. used | 20 kr, 50 kr, 100 kr, 200 kr, 500 kr | ||||
| Rarely used | 1000 kr | ||||
| Coins | 1, 2, 5, 10 kr | ||||
| Demographics | |||||
| User(s) |  Sweden | ||||
| Issuance | |||||
| Central bank | Sveriges Riksbank | ||||
| Website | www | ||||
| Printer | None as of 19 June 2018 | ||||
| Valuation | |||||
| Inflation | 10.2% (target 2.0%[1]) | ||||
| Source | December 2022[2] | ||||
| Method | CPI | ||||
One krona is subdivided into 100 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 2010. 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).[4]