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1 Rigsdaler Courant Blue paper, with anti-counterfeit text
| Issuer | Kurantbanken (Banken for Danmark) |
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| Year | 1788-1804 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A28 |
| Obverse description | The left margin carries an ornate typographic vignette with the letterform 'E' denoting the denomination 'Een' (One), alongside a letterpress promissory text block stating the obligation of the Banquen i Kiöbenhavn to pay the bearer one Rigsdaler Courant. Two handwritten manuscript signatures appear below the text, and an impressed (dry-stamped) royal coat of arms serves as an authentication mark. An anti-counterfeiting warning legend is set in a separate text panel to the right of the main body. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on blue-tinted paper. The show-through of the impressed dry-stamp authentication marks from the obverse is clearly visible toward the upper portion of the note. |
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Kurantbanken — formally the Banken for Danmark — was already in serious institutional trouble by the time this series was in circulation. The bank had massively overextended note issuance relative to its specie reserves, a problem that would culminate in the state bankruptcy of 1813 and the bank's eventual dissolution. Notes from this period were increasingly distrusted by a public that had good reason to be skeptical.
The blue paper itself was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure, one of the more visible in a series that also carried printed warning text against forgery — unusual enough for the period that it suggests the bank was dealing with a real counterfeiting problem, not a theoretical one.