10 Kroner Great Norwegian Spitsbergen Coal Company

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.