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100 Kroner Portrait and Landscape. Type 1, compass watermark
| Issuer | Danmarks Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| In circulation to | 31 May 2025 |
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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. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Ib Andersen was one of Denmark's most respected graphic artists, and the Nationalbank gave him genuine latitude with this series — an unusual arrangement for central bank commissions of that period. The result was a note that broke decisively from the architectural formality of earlier Danish issues.
The compass watermark identifies this as Type 1 within the series, distinguishing it from later printings that used a different watermark configuration. The Nationalbank's in-house printing works handled production throughout, which gave Denmark tighter control over security specifications than countries relying on contract printers abroad.