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10 Vestindiske Dalere St. Croix
| Issuer | State Treasury (Statskassen) |
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| Year | 1901 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Mercury in a frame at left, portrait of Zeus at right, with arms at lower center. The design incorporates classical allegorical vignettes framing the central composition. |
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| Reverse description | Grey-toned note with a large numeral '10' reversed out in white within a finely engraved guilloche medallion surrounded by foliate and feathered ornamental wings at center upper field. Below, the denomination inscriptions appear in two lines of serif letterpress text. |
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The Dansk Vestindisk Nationalbank was established specifically to serve the Danish West Indies — St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. Jan — and operated under close supervision from Copenhagen. This 10 Vestindiske Dalere note, payable at St. Croix, belongs to a series that circulated across a colonial economy built almost entirely on sugar plantation revenues by that point well past their peak. The Vestindisk Daler was pegged at 5 to the Danish Krone under the 1904 monetary reform, which effectively made the entire series obsolete within a few years of this note's issue.
The Pick 4 series is genuinely scarce. Denmark sold the islands to the United States in 1917, and surviving Danish colonial currency from this bank was not widely saved by the local population.