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10 Øre
| Issuer | The Royal Greenland Trade Department (Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel) |
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| Year | 1910-1926 |
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| Size | 38 × 23 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Øre (Translation: 10 Øre) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a fully blank white cardboard surface, entirely devoid of printed text, vignette, or ornamental elements. The perforated edges are visible along all margins, consistent with the production method used for this series of Greenlandic trade scrip. |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel operated Greenland as a strict trading monopoly, and these small cardboard tokens functioned as internal scrip — usable only within the company's own stores. They were never legal tender in any conventional sense and had no validity outside the colony's supply system. The monopoly itself wasn't dissolved until 1950, so notes from this series circulated for decades longer than their printed date range suggests.
Cardboard wore badly in Arctic conditions. Surviving examples in clean state are genuinely uncommon.