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10 Speciedalere
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1833 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Norges Bank's earliest decades were marked by chronic distrust of paper money — understandable, given that the bank was founded in 1816 in the immediate aftermath of Norway's separation from Denmark and the financial wreckage that followed the Napoleonic period. The speciedaler itself was a relatively new unit, replacing the rigsdaler as Norway's standard, and large-denomination notes like this 10 Speciedalere were instruments of commercial settlement rather than everyday exchange.
Grosch was primarily an architect — he designed the Exchange building in Christiania and much of early nineteenth-century Norwegian civic infrastructure. His involvement in banknote engraving reflects how small the available pool of skilled craftsmen was in Norway at the time.