Catalog
10 Kroner
| Issuer | Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn |
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| Year | 1875-1891 |
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| Size | 140 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on blue-grey underprint, centred at the top with a vignette of the lesser coat of arms of Denmark, flanked by allegorical female figures representing Minerva (goddess of wisdom) to one side and Ceres (goddess of fertility) to the other. Encircled denomination panels appear at left and right, with signatures below each, and beneath the coat of arms the note value and the statutory issuing authority inscription are rendered in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn issued this note under the authority granted by the 1818 charter, though by the 1870s the bank was operating in a Denmark freshly reoriented after the catastrophic loss of Schleswig-Holstein in 1864. The low denomination served a working population still adjusting to the decimal krone system introduced in 1875 as part of the Scandinavian Monetary Union — a currency arrangement Denmark entered alongside Sweden and Norway that pegged all three currencies at par.
Henrik Olrik was primarily a sculptor and medallist, an unusual background for a banknote designer, and one that shows in the crisp, relief-conscious quality of the engraved work he produced for the series.