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| Emittent | Færø Amt (Faroe County) |
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| Jahr | 1940 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Material | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Druckerei | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Designer | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Stecher | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Referenz(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse carries a central vignette of an ocean scene with a boat, flanked by ram vignettes in each upper corner. The denomination numeral '100' appears in the lower right corner, with the full promissory text in Danish occupying the central field, including the issuing authority, legislative basis, and date. A serial number and the signature of the county prefect appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenlegende | Hundrede 100 Kroner (Translation: One Hundred Kroner) |
| Unterschrift(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Anmerkungen |
One of the more historically loaded emergency issues of the Second World War. When German forces occupied Denmark in April 1940, British troops moved into the Faroe Islands days later to prevent the same fate — and immediately created a currency problem. The islands' supply of Danish notes was finite, communication with Copenhagen severed, and no replacement printing could arrive from the mainland. Færø Amt improvised: notes were produced locally, under wartime conditions, without the infrastructure of any established security printer.
Jacob Olsen designed the series under those constraints. The printing was done on the islands themselves — a rare case where the place of issue and place of manufacture are genuinely the same, not a technicality. Single-signature authorization under Hilbert kept the authentication chain short and practical.