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1 Krone Styrelsen af Kolonierne i Grønland
| Issuer | Styrelsen af Kolonierne i Grønland |
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| Year | 1913 |
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| Reference(s) | P#13 |
| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on light blue-green paper, with a rectangular frame enclosing the denomination in each corner and a serial number panel at the top centre. The central vignette consists of a circular medallion with a reindeer in a mountain landscape, flanked on either side by the numeral value. A promissory text runs along the upper portion of the note, while the issuing authority inscription appears along the lower margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Daugaard Jensen & Munch straight hyphon above "u" in Munch's Daugaard Jensen & Munch ondulated hyphon above "u" in Munch's Daugaard Jensen & Barner Rasmussen large Daugaard Jensen & Barner Rasmussen small |
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| Comments |
Greenland's colonial administration issued its own distinct currency series precisely because the territory operated as a closed economy — private trade was prohibited under the Danish colonial monopoly, and these notes functioned entirely within a system where the administering authority controlled both the goods and the means of exchange. The 1 Krone of 1913 circulated across trading posts where ordinary Danish currency had no practical role.
The four signature combinations documented for this type reflect an unusually long active lifespan. The shift from Daugaard Jensen's co-signatories — from Munch (in two distinct hyphen variants) to Barner Rasmussen in two size variants — spans administrative changes across decades. The hyphen anomaly above the "u" in Munch's signature is a genuine plate or printing variation, not a handwriting difference.