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50 Kroner Grønlands Styrelse. Type II: No pattern outside frame
| Issuer | Grønlands Styrelse (Greenland's Administration) |
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| Year | 1945-1952 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Light purple ink on brown paper, centred on a white circular guilloche panel bearing a monogram 'GS' in pale underprint, surrounded by the circular legend GRØNLANDS STYRELSE. To the left of the central device stands the crowned arms of Greenland — a seated polar bear on a blue field — and to the right the crowned arms of Denmark — three lions passant with nine hearts. The denomination numeral appears in each of the four corners. |
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| Protection description | Wavy patterns incorporating three crowns |
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Grønlands Styrelse notes were a wartime and postwar administrative stopgap — Denmark had been occupied since April 1940, and normal monetary supply to Greenland was severed. The United States assumed de facto responsibility for the island's defense, and the Danish administration in Greenland operated in a peculiar semi-autonomous limbo for the duration. These kroner notes were issued under that arrangement to keep commerce functioning in the territory.
The Type II designation refers to the absence of the guilloche pattern outside the frame border — a detail that distinguishes it from Type I without any difference in nominal validity or issuing authority. Whether the change was a deliberate security modification or simply a plate revision at the Copenhagen works is not definitively documented.