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10 Kroner State certificate
| Issuer | Danish State (Finansministeriet) |
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| Year | 1914-1916 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey note with black letterpress text on a fine guilloche underprint incorporating the Danish coat of arms with supporters. The large title 'Statsbevis, 10 Kroner.' is set across the top, with the denomination 'TI KRONER' in bold display type at centre. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion, attributed to the Finansministeren and Statsgjeldsdirektøren, with the issuance date and place 'Kjøbenhavn' printed below. |
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| Reverse description | Grey note with black letterpress print on a fine guilloche underprint. The reverse carries a redemption value table showing the progressive increase of face value through the addition of 5 per cent annual interest, arranged in columnar format with Danish text headings. |
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Denmark's Finansministeriet issued these state certificates — technically not banknotes — as an emergency measure following the financial panic triggered by the outbreak of World War One in August 1914. The Nationalbank temporarily suspended convertibility, and the state stepped in directly with its own paper obligations to prevent a liquidity collapse. The issuing authority being the Finance Ministry rather than the central bank is the distinguishing legal fact here; these circulated alongside Nationalbank notes but carried a different governmental guarantee.
The Copenhagen printing kept production under domestic control at a moment when foreign press contracts were suddenly unreliable.