1 Rigsdaler Courant Blue paper, with anti-counterfeit text

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.