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STOCKHOLM — Movie icons Greta Garbo and Ingmar Bergman are among the late Swedish celebrities who will adorn new editions of bank notes in the Scandinavian country.
Sweden's Central Bank says Stockholm-born Garbo, one of Hollywood's most celebrated actresses in the 1920s and '30s, will feature on the new edition of the 100-kronor bill to enter circulation in 2014-2015. One-hundred kronor is worth about $16.
Bergman, the famed Swedish film director who died in 2007, will be the motif for a new 200-kronor bill.
Other denominations will honor U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, soprano Birgit Nilsson, composer and entertainer Evert Taube and children's book writer Astrid Lindgren, creator of the Pippi Longstocking book series.
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