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50 Øre - Christian X
| Issuer | Greenland |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | Royal Danish Mint (Den Kongelige Mønt), Copenhagen, Denmark (1739-date) |
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Greenland's coinage was administered not by any Greenlandic authority but by Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel — the Royal Greenland Trade Department — a Danish state monopoly that controlled virtually all commerce on the island. These aluminium bronze coins were struck specifically for use within that closed trading system, where they functioned as company scrip as much as national currency. Ordinary Danish coins were deliberately excluded from circulation to keep economic activity within the monopoly's accounts.
KM#7 is one of a matched series introduced in 1926, the first substantive coinage reform for Greenland in decades.