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10 Krónur Danmarks Nationalbank, first issue
| Issuer | Danmarks Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1954-1978 |
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| Currency | Faroese Króna (1948-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FØROYAR TÍGGJU KRÓNUR ÚTGIVIN SAMBÆRT LÓG NR. 248-12 APRÍL 1949 SUM LÓGLIGT GJALDOYRA Í FØROYUM (Translation: Faroe Islands, Issued under the law No. 248-April 12th 1949 as legal currency in the Faroe Islands) |
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| Protection description | Electrotype "10" repeated across the paper |
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Danmarks Nationalbank's first 10 krónur note for the Faroe Islands — issued under the bank's Faroese authority rather than its domestic Danish mandate — served a currency zone that had been formally separated from the Danish krone in 1940, when British occupation of the islands following the German invasion of Denmark made independent monetary management a practical necessity. That wartime administrative quirk became permanent, and this note is a direct product of it.
The series ran for over two decades without redesign, which is longer than most comparable Scandinavian denominations of the period. Heavy circulation wear is typical; surviving high-grade examples are genuinely uncommon.