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1 Krone Stord Herad
| Issuer | Stord Herad (Stord Municipality) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with a decorative interlaced border running along all four edges, with numeral 1 in each corner within a square cartouche. The issuer name "Stord herad" is printed in large Gothic blackletter script at the top centre, followed by the guarantee text and the denomination "Ei krone" in bold letterpress. A serial number appears at upper right, and two manuscript signatures are placed across the lower half of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stord herad gjev trygd for Ei krone Stord formannskap 1940. |
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Stord Herad was one of dozens of Norwegian municipalities forced to issue emergency scrip after the German invasion of April 1940 severed normal banking operations and created an immediate shortage of small denomination currency. These heradssetlar — municipal notes — were a locally administered stopgap, authorized under wartime necessity rather than any preexisting legal framework for note issue.
Skaare's catalog documents the full range of these Norwegian occupation-era municipal issues; #2052 places this Stord note within a well-studied but genuinely scarce series. Survival rates vary sharply by commune — smaller municipalities printed in lower quantities and redemption was often incomplete.