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1 Krone Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel
| Issuer | Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenlandic Trade Department) |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Reference(s) | P#9 |
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| Obverse lettering | DENNE-ANVISNING-GÆLDER VED-HANDELSSTEDERNE-I-GRØNLAND-FOR EN-KRONE DEN KGL. GRØNLANDSKE HANDEL-KØBENHAVN 1911 (Translation: This note is valid at the trading posts in Greenland for 1 Krone Royal Greenlandic Trading, Copenhagen 1911) |
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| Protection description | Monogram watermark reading 'DKGH' (for Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel) set within a rectangular frame, visible when the note is held to light. |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel held a state monopoly on all trade in Greenland from the late eighteenth century onward, and these notes functioned entirely within that closed system — redeemable only at KGH trading posts, not in Danish krone circulation. They were effectively company scrip with royal backing, a deliberate mechanism to keep cash from leaking out of the colonial trading economy.
The P#9 series is the scarcer of the 1911 issues. Greenland's extreme isolation meant surviving notes in any grade are genuinely uncommon; humidity and hard use in remote settlements took a predictable toll on the paper.