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1 Skilling Type I; impressed stamp
| Issuer | Grønlands Administration |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on white paper. The right two-thirds carry the Danish crown device and denomination numeral, with border inscriptions running along the top and bottom edges. The left third bears a distinctive impressed stamp, separating the trade certificate designation from the main panel. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, without printed design or text. |
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Greenland's isolation became acute in April 1940 when Germany occupied Denmark, severing the island from its administrative and financial metropole overnight. The Danish Governor Henrik Kauffmann — acting on his own authority and later formally backed by the Free Danish movement — negotiated directly with Washington, and Greenland spent the war years under a de facto American security umbrella. Local currency needs had to be improvised.
These 1941 Skilling notes were issued by Grønlands Administration as emergency scrip, their validity confirmed by an impressed (dry embossed) stamp rather than a printed one — a detail that distinguishes Type I from later variants and reflects the limited production resources available on the island at the time.