Catalog
1 Krone
| Issuer | Greenland (Denmark) |
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| Year | 1910-1926 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey-blue paper stock with a serrated (rouletted) right edge, bearing the numeral "1" in the upper centre and the denomination word "Krone" in bold serif letterpress below, all printed in dark brown ink against the unadorned ground. The note is entirely devoid of vignette, guilloche, or underprint ornamentation, reflecting the austere emergency-issue character of this Greenlandic local currency. The left and upper/lower edges are straight-cut, while the right edge carries the distinctive zigzag perforation used to separate notes from a booklet or sheet. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a uniformly plain blue-grey paper surface with all four edges bearing the same zigzag rouletted perforation as seen on the obverse, enclosing an entirely unprinted field. No inscriptions, vignettes, or security devices appear on this side, consistent with the extremely simple production standard of this local Greenlandic emergency issue. |
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Greenland's 1 Krone notes from this period were issued under Danish colonial administration, functioning within a tightly controlled trade economy where the Royal Greenland Trade Department held a monopoly on commerce. These were not general-circulation banknotes in any conventional sense — they operated within a closed system, valid only in Greenland and deliberately unusable outside it, a mechanism that bound Greenlandic residents to the company-store model the monopoly depended on.
The extreme dimensions reflect this: at 38 × 23 mm, these are among the smallest paper money pieces issued under Danish authority, closer in size to a postage stamp than a banknote.