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1 Kroner Stokke Provianteringsraad
| Issuer | Stokke Provianteringsraad |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 95 × 81 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on green underprint, with the large numeral denomination and an underprinted municipal crest at centre. The voucher is typeset in a plain utilitarian style characteristic of Norwegian wartime rationing issues, with the issuer name at top and redemption categories listed below the denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, the reverse presents a plain pale paper surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Stokke is a small municipality in Vestfold, and this note is one of hundreds of local emergency issues that proliferated across Norway during the First World War food crisis. The Provianteringsraad — provisioning council — was a wartime administrative body established by the Norwegian state in 1916 to manage food rationing and distribution at the municipal level. These councils were authorized to issue small-denomination scrip when coin circulation collapsed under wartime hoarding pressure.
Most Norwegian municipal issues of this type had very short active lives and were redeemed and destroyed once normal circulation resumed after 1918. Survivors are scarce precisely because they were never meant to last.