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| Emittent | Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Aktieselskap |
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| Jahr | 1973 |
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| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Druckerei | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Designer | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Yellow note with a dense green letterpress underprint repeating the text 'STORENORSKESPITSBERGENKULKOMPANI' across the entire field. The issuer's name 'Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Aktieselskap' is set in bold black type at centre, above the large denomination numeral '10' flanked on both sides and the central legend 'TI KRONER' in bold black. Two oval red company stamp impressions appear at upper left and upper right. The series designation and serial number are printed in black at upper left and upper right respectively, and two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre above their printed titles. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Unterschrift(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Underprint |
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| Anmerkungen |
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani — "the big Norwegian" — operated as effectively a state within a state on Svalbard, and its scrip functioned accordingly. The company town of Longyearbyen had no commercial banking infrastructure, so the company issued its own currency for use in the company store and canteen. Workers were partly paid in this scrip, which could not be spent anywhere else on the archipelago and certainly not on the Norwegian mainland.
The 1973 series updated earlier wartime-era issues; the original scrip program dates to well before Norwegian sovereignty was firmly exercised under the 1920 Svalbard Treaty. NP#SN44 is among the later denominations still in active use before electronic payroll eliminated the scrip system entirely in the 1980s.