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10 Kroner 'Blindetier' Portrait and Landscape. Type 1
| Issuer | Danmarks Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1950-1952 |
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| In circulation to | 31 May 2025 |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on orange-brown underprint, with a portrait vignette of Hans Christian Andersen positioned at left. A decorative vignette of white storks appears at right. The design is framed with fine guilloche border work typical of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Black intaglio print on orange-brown underprint, with a central landscape vignette of Egeskov Windmill at Kværndrup, southern Funen, rendered in the style of Ib Andersen. The composition is framed by guilloche ornamental borders, with denomination numerals repeated in each corner. |
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The "Blindetier" nickname — roughly "blind animal" — refers to the abstract, barely-defined animal motif that puzzled the Danish public when this series appeared. Ib Andersen was a well-regarded Danish graphic artist and illustrator, and his involvement gave the note an unusually art-forward character for a postwar issue. Waterlow & Sons produced the plates in London, a long-standing arrangement that Denmark maintained through much of the mid-century.
The unusually dense signature matrix across just two years of issue suggests the bank was cycling through authorized signatories at pace — five distinct combinations across 1951 and 1952, with Riim appearing as a constant on every variant.