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100 Kroner Portrait and Landscape. Type 1, compass watermark
| Issuer | Danmarks Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1961 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-brown intaglio print on a cream ground. A portrait vignette of physicist Hans Christian Ørsted occupies the left portion of the face, while a detailed vignette of a compass with electric wire appears at right, symbolising Ørsted's discovery of electromagnetism. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central text panel, flanked by guilloche underprint patterns. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a large panoramic intaglio landscape vignette of Kronborg Castle at Helsingør, viewed from the shore across a wide foreground of beach and shallow water with timber posts. The denomination numeral 100 appears in ornate cartouches at upper right and lower left, with a further small numeral at lower right, all enclosed within a scalloped border of fine guilloche work. |
| Reverse lettering | DANMARKS NATIONALBANK 100 (Translation: National Bank of Denmark) |
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