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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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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the crowned double royal monogram of Frederik IV at upper centre, surrounded by manuscript promissory text in period Danish orthography. Below the vignette, the denomination and date of authorising ordinance are set in letterpress, with spaces reserved for five handwritten signatures of authorising officials. |
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| Obverse 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.