1 Rigsbankdaler Nationalbanken, 1st issue

Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn was established by royal charter in 1818 as a privately owned institution — unusual for a central bank — created specifically to stabilize Danish finances after the catastrophic state bankruptcy of 1813, which had wiped out the previous Rigsbanken and devastated public trust in paper money. This 1 Rigsbankdaler belongs to the bank's inaugural issue, circulating into an economy still raw from that collapse.

The Rigsbankdaler itself was a transitional currency unit, introduced precisely to bridge the devaluation gap left by 1813. Redemption was set at a fixed ratio against the old collapsed currency, making even the lowest denomination politically charged.