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10 Kroner 1948-1976, Michelsen & shipping
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1954-1973 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-brown intaglio print on a guilloche underprint. At left, a portrait vignette of Christian Michelsen, Norwegian shipping magnate and first Prime Minister of independent Norway (1905–1907), key figure in the dissolution of the Norwegian-Swedish union. Below the portrait, the crowned national coat of arms appears at lower right, charged with a lion rampant bearing the axe of Saint Olaf (King Olaf II), symbolising the sovereign's descent from the Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae. Six seagulls in flight above waves run along the lower border, with the year of issue at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-brown intaglio print. At right, a vignette after a drawing by Norwegian painter Henrik Sørensen shows a ship making headway through open water. At centre-left, Mercury, the classical patron deity of commerce and financial gain, is rendered holding a caduceus with both hands. |
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Arnstein Arneberg was primarily an architect — responsible among other things for the Norwegian section of Oslo City Hall — which makes his sustained role designing Norges Bank notes an unusual crossover. The 10 Kroner series he produced ran across nearly two decades of signatures, reflecting not just longevity of design but the internal stability Norges Bank projected through the postwar reconstruction years.
The volume of signature combinations on P#31 is striking: seven different pairs across nineteen years of dating, with some prefixes splitting mid-year between signatories. Collectors chasing a complete run by prefix and signature combination face a genuinely demanding task, particularly around the 1955 H-prefix and 1958 N-prefix issues, where the crossover points are narrow.