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10 Francs St. Thomas
| Issuer | Den Dansk-Vestindiske Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1905 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 10 DEN DANSK-VESTINDISKE NATIONALBANK betaler paa Anfordring til Indehaveren TI FRANCS I GULD EFTER STATUTTERNES THE NATIONAL BANK OF THE DANISH WEST INDIES will pay to the Bearer on Demand TEN FRANCS IN GOLD AS PER §8 OF THE STATUTES Charlotte Amalie ST. THOMAS 1905 Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ld Engravers, London |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of a cultivated agave (century plant) plantation, with a figure visible among the rows of plants and tall flowering stalks rising in the background. Denomination numeral 10 appears in ornate cartouches at each corner within a finely engraved guilloche border. Bilingual redemption text in Danish and English is set in two panels across the lower portion of the note. |
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Den Dansk-Vestindiske Nationalbank was a short-lived institution serving the Danish West Indies — St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. Jan — during the final decades of Danish colonial rule. By 1905 the islands' economy was stagnant, sugar production long past its peak, and there was persistent pressure on Denmark to sell the territory to the United States, negotiations that would ultimately succeed in 1917. Notes from this bank circulated in a genuinely small, commercially marginal colony.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plate work in London. The "St. Thomas" designation identifies the payable location, not the place of printing — a distinction worth keeping clear on this series.