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2 Øre Halvor J. Aasland
| Issuer | Halvor J. Aasland |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress printed in black on plain paper, the face enclosed within a decorative border of repetitive scrollwork and rosette corner ornaments. The denomination '2 ØRE' is set in large bold type at centre, flanked above by the cautionary legend 'Må ikke omsettes!' and the bearer text, and below by the issuer's name 'HALVOR J. AASLAND' in spaced capitals. The overall layout is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Må ikke omsettes! Innehaveren herav har til gode 2 ØRE av HALVOR J. AASLAND |
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Halvor J. Aasland was a Norwegian merchant or tradesman who issued this small-denomination necessity note privately — a practice that persisted in rural and semi-rural Norwegian communities into the early twentieth century when coin shortages made low-value transactions genuinely difficult. S&B#1252 places it within the Seddel & Bon cataloguing of Norwegian local and private issues, a category that tends to be poorly documented and thinly traded.
Oluf Rasmussens Trykkeri in Skien was a regional press, not a security printer. The grayish-brown paper is characteristic of commercial job printing rather than any attempt at anti-counterfeiting.