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1/2 Rigsdaler / 48 Skilling Colonien Julianehaab i Grønland
| Emittent | Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenlandic Trading Company) |
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| Jahr | 1803 |
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| Nennwert | 1/2 Rigsdaler = 48 Skilling |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Kongelige Grönlandske Handel En halv Rigsdaler danſk Courant Denne Anviisning gielder ved Colonien Julianehaab i Grønland for 1/2 Rdlr. eller 48 Skilling danſk C. Kiøbenhavn, 1803. Den adminiſtrerende Direction for den Kongl. Grønlandſke handel (Translation: Royal Greenlandic Trading 1/2 Rigsdaler Danish Courant This note is valid at the Colony of Julianehaab in Greenland for 1/2 of a Rigsdaler or 48 Skilling Courant. Copenhagen, 1803 The administrating direction for the Royal Greenlandic Trading) |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Reverse is plain and unprinted, showing only the laid paper stock with show-through of the obverse letterpress text visible from the other side. |
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The Kongelige Grønlandske Handel occupied an unusual position in Danish colonial administration — it was a state-run monopoly that functioned as the sole economic intermediary between Denmark and Greenland, which meant its scrip carried quasi-governmental authority without being issued by a bank or treasury. These Julianehaab notes were hyper-localized instruments, valid only within a single settlement, not across Greenland as a whole. That restriction was deliberate: the KGH managed each trading colony as a closed account system, preventing cash from migrating between posts.
1803 is early in the series for Julianehaab, a settlement founded in 1775. Surviving examples are rare by any measure — the harsh subarctic storage conditions and the near-total absence of a collecting culture in colonial Greenland meant most were destroyed or simply rotted.