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10 Kroner Portrait and Landscape. Type 3, large watermark

Issuer Danmarks Nationalbank
Year 1954-1957
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Currency Krone (1873-date)
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Obverse description At centre, a large intaglio numeral '10' dominates the field, flanked to the left by an engraved portrait vignette of Hans Christian Andersen facing right, with his name inscribed below in small text. To the right, a vignette of storks nesting atop a post is rendered in fine intaglio line work. The word 'DANMARK' arches in bold letterpress across the upper portion, while 'TI KRONER' appears in large serif type along the lower band, with two manuscript signatures between the central numeral and the issuer name.
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Reverse lettering DANMARKS 10 10 10 10 NATIONALBANK
(Translation: Nationalbank of Denmark)
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The Portrait and Landscape series was introduced in the late 1940s as a deliberate reassertion of Danish visual identity following the German occupation — Ib Andersen, one of Denmark's foremost graphic artists, was commissioned specifically to move away from the austere wartime aesthetic. The Type 3 distinction within this series refers to the larger watermark format adopted mid-run, a modification introduced to counter counterfeiting concerns that had emerged with earlier printings.

P#44 represents a relatively narrow issue window. Notes from the tail end of this type were withdrawn as the series was progressively retired through the late 1950s.

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