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1 Krone Stord Herad
| Issuer | Stord Herad (Stord Municipality) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| In circulation to | 1 March 1941 |
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| Obverse lettering | Stord herad gjev trygd for Ei krone Stord formannskap 1940. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unbordered and dominated by a central rectangular vignette printed from a photographic reproduction, showing a panoramic view of the town of Stord with residential buildings clustered along a hillside above the waterfront, backed by wooded slopes and mountains. The surrounding area of the note is left plain white. |
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Stord Herad was one of dozens of Norwegian municipalities forced to issue emergency scrip after the German invasion of April 1940 severed normal banking operations and created an immediate shortage of small denomination currency. These heradssetlar — municipal notes — were a locally administered stopgap, authorized under wartime necessity rather than any preexisting legal framework for note issue.
Skaare's catalog documents the full range of these Norwegian occupation-era municipal issues; #2052 places this Stord note within a well-studied but genuinely scarce series. Survival rates vary sharply by commune — smaller municipalities printed in lower quantities and redemption was often incomplete.