1 Krone

Greenland's 1 Krone notes from this period were issued under Danish colonial administration, functioning within a tightly controlled trade economy where the Royal Greenland Trade Department held a monopoly on commerce. These were not general-circulation banknotes in any conventional sense — they operated within a closed system, valid only in Greenland and deliberately unusable outside it, a mechanism that bound Greenlandic residents to the company-store model the monopoly depended on.

The extreme dimensions reflect this: at 38 × 23 mm, these are among the smallest paper money pieces issued under Danish authority, closer in size to a postage stamp than a banknote.