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10 Krónur - Christian IX Posthumous, Landssjóður Íslands
| Issuer | Landssjóður Íslands (Treasury of Iceland) |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Value | 10 Krónur (10 ISJ) |
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| Reverse description | Blue on white print. The central vignette portrays the seated figure of the Mountain Woman, a traditional personification of Iceland, with an Icelandic falcon perched on her right shoulder. The denomination in text appears in the upper register, flanked on each side by the value in ornate guilloche cartouches, with the issuing authority named below the central vignette. |
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Landssjóður Íslands — the Icelandic Treasury — issued this note two years after Christian IX died in January 1906, making this a posthumous use of his portrait on a denomination that had been in planning before his death. Iceland at this point had no central bank of its own; the Treasury functioned as the note-issuing authority under Danish rule, and all printing was handled in Copenhagen.
Henrik Olrik was a Danish medalist and designer of considerable reputation; Gerhard Heilmann, better known today as an ornithologist, was also a skilled commercial artist who contributed to several Thiele-printed issues of this period.