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| Emittent | Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani A/S (Great Norwegian Spitsbergen Coal Company) |
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| Jahr | 1919-1926 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Light green note with a fine guilloche underprint across the entire field. The issuer's name, "Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Aktieselskap," is set in ornate Gothic lettering within a decorative scroll cartouche at centre. Series letter and serial number appear in black-bordered panels at upper left and upper right respectively. The denomination "1 — En krone" is printed in large Gothic script within a central panel, flanked by the large watermark-style numeral "1" visible as a pale underprint. Conditions of use in Norwegian script occupy the lower text area, with two manuscript signatures above their printed titles at the foot of the note. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Betalingsmerke utstedt av Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Aktieselskap Mot dette betalingsmerke, som er utstedt for tilgodehavende løn, utleverer Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani, til ihændehaveren varer for et -beløp av 1 - En krone Ubenyttede betalingsmerker blir ved ihændehaverens avreise fra Spitsbergen i sæsonen 1922/23 at tilbakelevere til kontoret mot beløpets godskrivning i opgjøret. Merket er ugyldig utenfor Spitsbergen og efter sæsonens avslutning. Styrets formand. Kontordjef, Spitsbergen. (Translation: Payment note issued by The Great Norwegian Spitsbergen Coal Company Against this payment note, which is issued for outstanding wages, The Great Norwegian Spitsbergen Coal Company delivers to the bearer goods for an amount of 1 krone Unused notes when the beares departs from Spitsbergen during the season 1922/23 is returned to the office against credit of the amount in the settlement. The note is invalid outside Spitsbergen and after the end of the season. Chairman of the board. Office manager, Spitsbergen.) |
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| Anmerkungen |
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani issued scrip currency for use exclusively within Longyearbyen — a coal-mining settlement on Svalbard so remote that ordinary Norwegian currency was impractical to supply and recover in sufficient quantity. The company effectively ran a closed economy: workers were paid in this scrip and spent it at the company store, keeping money from leaking out of the settlement entirely.
The SN21r reference denotes a remainder — unissued stock, which survived in quantity precisely because it never entered circulation. Genuine circulated examples from the 1919–1926 period are considerably harder to find.