Catalog
10 kroner School Money
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1954-1973 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Orange letterpress print on white paper. Portrait vignette of Christian Michelsen at left, with the Norwegian coat of arms positioned below; a blank watermark window occupies the right field, and a row of birds in flight runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a uniformly textured, tan-coloured surface with a pronounced velour or loop-pile textile-like texture covering the entire field, bearing no printed design or lettering. |
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Norges Bank issued these notes specifically for use in schools as teaching currency — they were never legal tender and were not intended to enter general circulation. The series ran for nearly two decades, distributed through the educational system to give students hands-on familiarity with banknote handling, counting, and basic transaction exercises.
Because most were used hard by schoolchildren and then discarded, surviving examples in clean condition are proportionally scarcer than their long print run might suggest.