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10 Rigsdaler Courant Blue paper, with anti-counterfeit text
| Issuer | Kurantbanken (Danmarks og Norges Speciesbank), Copenhagen |
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| Year | 1778-1798 |
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| Value | 10 Rigsdaler Courant |
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| Obverse lettering | Tio Rigsdaler Courant. Naar forlanges, betaler Banquen i Kiöbenhavn Tio Rigsdaler skriver 10. Rdlr udi Courante Myndt til den i hænde havende; Imidlertid validere denne Banco Sedel, saa længe den er til, for overmelte Tio Rigsdaler, valuta i Banquen annammet Kiöbenhavn. Hvo som gøir falske Banco-Sedler, straffes paa Ære, Liv og Gods, og den der beviisligt angiver saadan een Falskner, nyder til Belønning Eet Tusinde Rigsdaler og Navnet forties. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, left unprinted on the plain blue-tinted paper stock with no design elements, inscriptions, or security devices. |
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Kurantbanken — formally the Danmarks og Norges Speciesbank — operated a dual-kingdom mandate from Copenhagen, covering both Denmark and Norway under a single monetary system. The blue-tinted paper used for this series was a deliberate security measure, not an aesthetic choice: distinctive stock made substition of materials by counterfeiters meaningfully harder at a time when the bank was already struggling with currency confidence issues that would eventually contribute to the catastrophic state bankruptcy of 1813.
The impressed stamp alongside the anti-counterfeiting text reflects how seriously forgery pressure was felt in the late eighteenth century, when engraving technology was accessible enough that printed security alone was insufficient.