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Gold Convertibility Suspended

Sweden · Economy / Gold Standard. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1914

Hjalmar Hammarskjold2 August 1914

Stockholm · Economy / Gold Standard

The Riksbank suspends redemption into gold after the outbreak of war, interrupting Sweden's classical gold-standard regime.

Names involved

Hjalmar Hammarskjold

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