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5 Kroner
| Issuer | Handelsstederne i Grönland |
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| Year | 1887 |
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| Value | 5 Kroner |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note printed on plain paper, with the denomination numeral '5' in each corner within circular cartouches. Two crowned heraldic shield vignettes flank a central oval guilloche panel bearing the inscription 'FEM KRONER' in letterpress. The text 'Denne Anvisning gjælder ved Handelsstederne i Grönland for' is set in a cursive script above the central vignette, with the place and date 'Kiøbenhavn 1887' below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures and a handwritten serial number prefixed 'No'. |
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| Obverse lettering | FEM KRONER Denne Anvisning gjælder ved Handelsstederne i Grönland for KIØBENHAVN 1887 Noteret No |
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Handelsstederne i Grönland — the Royal Greenland Trade Department — operated as a state monopoly controlling virtually all commerce in Greenland, and its notes functioned as a closed-currency system: valid only within the trading posts, useless anywhere else. This was by design. The monopoly had every incentive to keep scrip circulating internally rather than leaking out as claims against Danish crown reserves.
V. Søborg & Stühr were a Copenhagen lithographic firm, not a security printer in the conventional sense. The relatively modest production quality this implies is worth noting for attribution purposes.