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100 Kroner Famous Men and Women. Type 2, enhanced security features
| Issuer | Danmarks Nationalbank |
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| Year | 2002-2008 |
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| Value | 100 Kroner |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Hologram |
| Protection description | Watermark portrait of Carl Nielsen; black hidden security thread; partly windowed metallic security thread inscribed "100 KR" |
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The "Famous Men and Women" series was introduced in 1997 as Denmark's first thematic note family — each denomination assigned to a specific cultural or intellectual figure rather than a generic national allegory. The 100 Kroner honors the playwright Carl Nielsen and the archaeologist Johanne Lange, pairing two figures whose prominence sat firmly outside the political sphere, which was a deliberate editorial choice by the bank. Type 2 of this series added a hologram strip, upgrading the security profile while keeping the plate design unchanged.
The sheer number of signature combinations across this single pick number reflects the bank's practice of printing against demand rather than in fixed annual runs — prefix ranges sometimes straddled fiscal years, producing the overlapping Thomsen/Nielsen/Andersen variants seen within a single dated issue. The Copenhagen printing works closed in 2016.