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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 lettering | DANMARK 10 TI KRONER (Translation: Denmark Ten Kroner.) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.