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100 Torgpæng
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in duotone rose-red on a hatched guilloche underprint, the obverse carries a large central vignette of the Torgkvartalet building in Stjørdal to the right, alongside a circular denomination cartouche inscribed VERDI HUNDRE / VERDI / 100 KR, surmounted by a ribbon banner reading TORGPÆNG / KRONER. Marginal legends repeat VERDI 100 HUNDRE KRONER along both vertical borders. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, printed in a plain warm taupe tone with no design elements, lettering, or security features. |
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The Torgpæng series was a limited collector's piece issued by the city of Gjøvik as a local complementary currency, part of a broader European experiment in municipal exchange systems during the early 2010s. These notes were never legal tender and circulated only among participating merchants in the Gjøvik town square market — "torg" being the Norwegian word for market square.
Printed on paper rather than the polymer substrate Norway's Norges Bank had been evaluating for its official series, the Torgpæng notes reflect a deliberately lo-fi aesthetic common to local currency movements of the period.