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200 Kroner
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1994-2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of physicist and statesman Kristian Birkeland at right, facing three-quarters left, set against a blue guilloche underprint with stylized snowflake and aurora borealis motifs in the centre. To the left, a vignette of early scientific apparatus references Birkeland's electromagnetic experiments. Denomination numerals appear at lower left and upper right, with the issuer's name along the top edge. |
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| Reverse description | A stylised cartographic vignette of the Arctic region and North Pole occupies the centre and right, rendered in pastel green and blue tones with a compass rose and radiating aurora motif at upper left. Two vertical signature lines appear at the right margin alongside the year date. An accordion instrument vignette is visible at lower right, referencing Norwegian folk culture. |
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The 200 Kroner denomination was introduced in Norway in 1994, filling a gap that collectors had long noted in the krone series — no such value had existed before in modern Norwegian currency. Norges Banks Seddeltrykkeri, the central bank's own in-house printing facility in Oslo, produced the entire run, making this one of the relatively few Western European series of the period not contracted out to a specialist commercial printer like De La Rue or Giesecke & Devrient.
The block number dating convention is worth knowing: the final four digits of the block reference printed lower right on the obverse encode the year of printing, which does not always match the signature combination — useful for establishing precise issue dating when multiple governors signed across overlapping years.