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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 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown and black intaglio print on an orange guilloche underprint. At right, a portrait vignette of composer Carl Nielsen is accompanied by a musical note motif and the inscription "Carl Nielsen"; three stylized snails appear beside the portrait. At upper left, a rhombus-shaped hologram alternately reveals musical notes, the letter "C", and the numeral "100" depending on the angle of tilt; numerals and signatures are rendered in luminescent ink, and the principal reverse vignette is additionally printed in ultraviolet-reactive ink. |
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| Signature(s) | 2002 - Thomsen & Heering 2002 - B. N. Andersen & Heering 2002 - Nielsen & Heering 2003 - Nielsen & Heering 2004 / Prefix B9-C0 - Nielsen & Heering 2004 / Prefix B9-C0 - Thomsen & Heering 2004 / Prefix B9-C0 - B. N. Andersen & Heering 2006 - Thomsen & Sørensen 2006 - Nielsen & Sørensen 2007 / Prefix C6 - Nielsen & Sørensen 2007 / Prefix C7 - Thomsen & Sørensen 2008 - Bernstein & Sørensen 2008 - Nielsen & Sørensen |
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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.