10 Kroner Kyrkjebø Municipality, Printed

Kyrkjebø Municipality issued this note in 1940 as a local emergency currency, a direct consequence of the German occupation disrupting normal banking and coin supply across rural Norway. Dozens of Norwegian municipalities resorted to the same measure that year, but notes from smaller communes in Sogn og Fjordane — Kyrkjebø among them — survive in far lower numbers than those from larger urban centers.

Høyanger, where this was printed, was home to an aluminum smelter that made the area strategically significant to the occupiers, which adds a layer of complexity to the local economy at the moment this note entered circulation.