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5 kroner School Money

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Year 1955-1963
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Value 5 Kroner
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Obverse description Blue letterpress print on white paper. Portrait vignette of Fridtjof Nansen at left, with the Norwegian coat of arms positioned below; a watermark window occupies the right portion of the note. The overall design closely imitates the style of contemporary Norges Bank currency issues.
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Reverse description The reverse presents a uniform, unprinted surface with a coarse, fibrous texture throughout, devoid of any vignette, lettering, or decorative elements, giving the note a plain utilitarian appearance consistent with its educational purpose.
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Danish "school money" — skole penge — was produced specifically for classroom use in economics and arithmetic lessons, not for any form of actual monetary exchange. These instructional notes were issued by the Danish Ministry of Education and deliberately printed to resemble genuine Nationalbank currency closely enough to be pedagogically useful, while remaining legally distinct from it.

The series ran through the late 1950s and into the early 1960s, a period when formal consumer economics was being introduced into Danish primary curricula. Surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than their non-circulating status might suggest — schoolroom wear is unforgiving.

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