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1 Mark No monogram, impressed coat of arms
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1713 |
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| Currency | Rigsdaler courant (1628-1873) |
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| Obverse lettering | Efter hans Kongl. Majeſta. allernaadigſte Forordning af den 8 Aprilis Aar 1713. Paſſere denne Seddel for Een Mark. (Signatures: ) A. Kuur, A. Ørbeck, C. Wulff |
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| Reverse lettering | Efter hans Kongl. Majesta. allernaadigste Forordning af den 8 Aprilis Aar 1713. Passere denne Seddel for Een Mark. (Signatures: ) A. Kuur, A. Ørbeck, C. Wulff |
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Denmark's earliest paper currency emerged from a financial emergency: the Great Northern War had drained royal coffers, and from 1713 the government issued these small-denomination assignats partly as forced loan instruments to fund continued military expenditure against Sweden. The signatories — Kuur, Ørbeck, and Wulff — were functionaries of the kortvarige courantbank, the short-lived exchange bank established specifically to administer this emission.
The impressed seal rather than a printed one was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting choice at a time when intaglio printing infrastructure in Copenhagen was limited. Surviving examples are extraordinarily rare; most circulated hard and were redeemed or destroyed within a decade.