1 Rigsdaler - Frederick IV Stamped value, 5 signatures

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.