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1 Kroner Stokke Provianteringsraad

Issuer Stokke Provianteringsraad
Year 1918
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Value 1 Krone
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Obverse lettering STOKKE PROVIANTERINGSRAAD 1 RABATMERKE Matvarer - Klær - Skotøy
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.

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