100 Kroner Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel

Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel was not a bank — it was a state trading monopoly that controlled virtually all commerce in Greenland under Danish colonial administration. These notes circulated only within Greenland, were not legal tender in Denmark proper, and formed part of a parallel monetary system designed to keep Greenlandic economic activity administratively isolated from the metropolitan economy.

Gunnar Aagaard Andersen was a significant figure in Danish modernist art, which makes his involvement here unusual — not many currency series of this period were handed to an artist of his standing rather than a professional banknote engraving house. The series ran across the full transition period leading up to Greenland's integration into the Danish constitutional framework as a county in 1953, the same year this note first appeared.