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100 Kroner Steffens Note
| Issuer | Norwegian State (Emergency Issue) |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a vertical ornamental border of rosette and floral devices along the left margin. Serial number and series letter appear at upper left and lower right. The text of the bearer promissory note is printed in letterpress, with the denomination '100 - eitt hundre - norske kroner' in bold, and the manuscript signature of W. Steffens at centre-bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank; no printed text, vignettes, or security devices. |
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When Germany occupied Norway in April 1940, the Norges Bank's note supply was immediately disrupted. Provincial branches were left to improvise, and the Voss branch produced this emergency note locally under branch manager W. Steffens — whose surname gave the issue its popular name among collectors. It was never intended as a permanent circulation instrument.
The improvised local production makes surviving examples genuinely scarce. Voss itself was heavily bombed by German forces in May 1940, which almost certainly reduced the number of notes that made it out of the branch intact.