5 Speciedaler

Norges Bank established its own printing works in 1816, making it one of the few central banks in Europe to produce notes entirely in-house from near the start of its operation. By the 1850s, the Trondheim facility was running the Speciedaler series on paper sourced from Bentsebrug, a mill on the Akerselva river outside Christiania — a deliberate domestic supply chain that insulated production from foreign dependencies.

The Speciedaler itself was abolished in 1875 when Norway adopted the krone under the Scandinavian Monetary Union, rendering the entire series obsolete in a single legislative stroke.