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50 Speciedalere
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1839 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on green paper. To the left, a vignette with the Norwegian royal coat of arms is set within a square border formed by the repeated Roman numeral for 50. The denomination appears in a decorative frame at the top centre, below which runs the promissory text in period typography; signatures and serial number appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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Gregorius Middelthun was a sculptor by training, and his engraving work for Norges Bank in the late 1830s reflects that background — the line work on these early speciedaler notes has a plasticity unusual for Norwegian-printed currency of the period. Most contemporary central banks contracted abroad for this kind of work; Norges Bank's decision to develop in-house engraving capacity at Trondheim was deliberate policy, part of a broader effort to establish institutional independence following the bank's 1816 founding.
The speciedaler itself was abolished in 1875 when Norway joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union and adopted the krone. Notes of this denomination from the 1839 series have very low survival rates.