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10 Kroner Grønlands Styrelse. Type II: No pattern outside frame
| Issuer | Grønlands Styrelse (Greenland's Administration) |
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| Year | 1945-1952 |
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| Printer | Danmarks Nationalbank's Banknote Printing Works, Copenhagen, Denmark (1818-2016) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on light brown paper. At centre, a circular vignette with a whale facing right, flanked by two smaller circles bearing the denomination numeral; above these, a text panel carries the note's validity inscription, while a lower panel contains the authorising signatures. The entire composition is enclosed within a plain frame with the issuing authority legend running along each side. |
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| Reverse lettering | GRØNLANDS STYRELSE (Translation: Greenland's Administration) |
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Grønlands Styrelse — the Danish colonial administrative body for Greenland — issued these notes as a distinct local currency, insulating the island's economy from mainland Danish circulation during and after the German occupation. The Type II designation distinguishes notes lacking the decorative guilloche pattern outside the frame border, a printing variation that occurred within the same series run at the Nationalbanken's Copenhagen works.
The 1945 start date is not incidental: the Allied liberation of Denmark reopened secure communication and supply lines to Greenland, which had spent the war years under informal American protection following the 1941 Defense Agreement.