The SEK (sign: kr; code: SEK) is the official currency 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. The Swedish krona was the ninth-most traded currency in the world by value in April 2016.
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). However, all öre coins were discontinued from 30 September 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).
SEK Banknotes pattern
20 kroner: Swedish children’s writer and picture book writer Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), Småland.
50 kroner: Author, composer, artist, singer Evert Taub (1890-1976), Bohus.
100 kroner: Swedish film actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Stockholm city.
200 kroner: famous Swedish film, opera, theatre director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), Gotland.
500 kroner: Opera soprano Biegelt Nielsen (1918-2005), Skåne Province.
1000 kroner: Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961), former Swedish foreign minister and second UN secretary general, Lapland province.