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100 Kroner Helge Ingstad
| Issuer | Gabris Banknote (Fantasy Issue) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 100 Kroner (100 NOK) |
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| Obverse description | Left centre vignette of a young Helge M. Ingstad in intaglio style against a guilloche underprint in blue and gold; a polar bear with cub vignette at right centre. A circular rosette cartouche with the inscription HELGE M. INGSTAD 1899–2001 appears at lower left, with ESSAY / SPECIMEN overprint in red across the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 SVALBARD 100 NY-ÅLESUND 2018 TESTSEDDEL / PRØVESEDDEL HUNDRE KRONER ESSAY / SPECIMEN HELGE M. INGSTAD 1899-2001 GABRISBANKNOTE 2018 |
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Fantasy notes occupy an awkward corner of the hobby, but Matej Gabris has built a small reputation producing high-quality speculative designs that circulate among collectors as display pieces rather than pretenders to legal tender. This piece imagines a Norwegian 100 Kroner denomination honoring Helge Ingstad, the explorer and lawyer who, with his wife Anne Stine, confirmed the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960 — a discovery that predated Columbus's voyage by roughly five centuries.
Gabris issues are printed on proper banknote stock and carry security-style design elements, which occasionally causes confusion at customs. They have no monetary value and no issuing authority behind them.