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1 Rigsdaler - Frederick IV Stamped value, 5 signatures
| Issuer | Kurantbanken (Banco di Dania) |
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| Year | 1713 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the same promissory ordinance text as the obverse, here rendered in regular roman typeface rather than the blackletter script of the front, reiterating the royal authority and face value of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Efter hans Kongl. Majesta. allernaadigste Forordning af den 8 Aprilis Aar 1713. Passere denne Seddel for Een Rigsdaler. |
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Kurantbanken — formally chartered in 1736 but operating under earlier incarnations dating to 1736's predecessor institutions — issued circulating notes during the Great Northern War when Denmark's treasury was under severe strain from prolonged military campaigning against Sweden. This note, bearing five manuscript signatures and a stamped denomination, reflects the authentication practice required precisely because counterfeiting and fraudulent alteration were live concerns in the early eighteenth-century Danish note-issuing environment.
The five-signature requirement was not ceremonial. Each signatory carried personal liability, a mechanism inherited from earlier European bank note practice designed to anchor paper credit to identifiable human accountability rather than institutional abstraction alone.