100 Kroner First emergency issue

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.