Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Speciedaler Black print
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1850-1852 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Speciedaler |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on white paper. The denomination "Een Spd" and "1 spd" appears at the top, divided by the Norwegian coat of arms in the centre. Below, the statutory bank text is set in a formal typeface, with the place of issue and year filled in by hand, accompanied by manuscript signatures of authorising officials. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse, relying on the watermark incorporated into the paper for security purposes. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Norges Bank's Printing Works produced this note entirely in-house at Trondheim — an unusual degree of vertical integration for a mid-nineteenth century issuing authority. The paper itself came from Bentsebrug mill, one of the few Norwegian mills capable of supplying the bank's watermark requirements at the time.
The "Black print" designation distinguishes this from related issues within the A4x series and almost certainly reflects an internal production classification rather than a collector convention. Speciedaler notes of this period were retired rapidly after Norway's currency reform of 1875 converted the country to the krone system, which compressed the survival window for circulated examples considerably.