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1 Krone 'Kaffeposer' Skillemønt type II, Sitting Falcon
| Issuer | Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 119 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink note with a plain typographic layout on a lightly tinted ground, framed by ornamental guilloche borders in each corner. The large numeral '1' appears at the top centre above the bold denomination 'KRONE' in large letterpress text, with the issuing authority and statutory declaration inscribed in three lines below. A seven-digit serial number is printed in black at the foot of the note, flanked by two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the Royal Danish Coat of Arms in the correct version for this Type II issue, displaying the sitting falcon rather than the standing falcon used on Type I. The arms are centrally placed within a simple border, with the denomination and issuing authority legends surrounding the vignette. |
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The "Kaffeposer" nickname — meaning coffee bags — was handed to this series by the Danish public, who thought the small emergency notes resembled the paper packets used to sell ground coffee at the time. The name stuck across all denominations and has been standard collector terminology ever since. These were genuine stopgap instruments: Denmark needed fractional paper currency fast when silver coinage disappeared from circulation at the outbreak of war in 1914, as hoarding emptied the tills almost overnight.
Gerhard Heilmann was better known as an ornithologist than a banknote designer — his 1926 book on the origin of birds remained a scientific reference for decades. The sitting falcon motif reflects that dual life.