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1 Øre
| Issuer | Greenland (Denmark) |
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| Year | 1910-1926 |
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| Currency | Krone (1873-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey cardboard with perforated edges on the left side. The numeral "1" is printed in black at the upper centre, with the denomination "Øre" rendered below in a blackletter typeface. The design is entirely typographic with no vignette or decorative underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Øre |
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Greenland's cardboard øre tokens occupy a genuinely odd corner of notaphily — technically not banknotes but catalogued as such because they functioned as the only small-denomination exchange medium in the Royal Greenland Trade Department's (KGH) monopoly trading posts. The KGH controlled all commerce in Greenland under Danish colonial administration, and conventional metal coinage was deemed impractical given the logistics of supplying remote Arctic settlements.
Cardboard deteriorates badly in damp coastal conditions, which is precisely where these circulated. Survivors in any presentable state are scarce for that reason alone.