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10 Krónur Seðlabanki Íslands
| Issuer | Seðlabanki Íslands (Central Bank of Iceland) |
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| Year | 1966-1969 |
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| Currency | Old króna (1885-1980) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint; a portrait vignette of Jón Eiríksson (1728–1787) occupies the centre-right, while a sailing trawler vignette fills the left field. The bank title 'SEÐLABANKI ÍSLANDS' runs along the top margin, 'TÍU KRÓNUR' is inscribed across the lower portion, and the denomination numeral '10' appears at both lower corners. Two signature lines are positioned below the central vignette, with serial numbers printed in red flanking them at left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and red, the reverse carries a panoramic vignette of sailing vessels and boats moored in Reykjavik harbour stretching across the centre of the note. Iceland's coat of arms is placed at the lower left, enclosed within an oval cartouche bearing the full name of the issuing institution. Denomination numerals and guilloche patterning frame the overall composition at the margins. |
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The Seðlabanki Íslands was established in 1961, replacing the Landsbanki Íslands as Iceland's central bank and note-issuing authority. This 10 Krónur note belongs to the bank's first independently issued series, with Bradbury Wilkinson handling production — a firm that printed for dozens of governments in the postwar decades from their New Malden facility. Halldór Pétursson's involvement as designer marks one of the few instances of a domestically credited designer on Icelandic notes of this period.
The series ran across a three-year window as Iceland's economy was navigating persistent inflationary pressure, and the 10 Krónur denomination would be rendered functionally obsolete within a decade by the 1981 monetary reform, which rebased the króna at 100:1.