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12 Rigsbankskilling - Frederick VI Handelsstederne i Grønland
| Uitgever | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Danish Royal Greenland Trade Department) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1819 |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Rigsbankdaler (1819-1854) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Letterpress-printed in black on plain white paper. At the top, the denomination "12 Rb.Skl." is presented within an oval cartouche, below which the promissory text runs across the width of the note. The royal cypher of Frederick VI appears to the left, while the crowned Greenlandic polar bear vignette occupies the right side. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Blank, unprinted reverse. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Danish Royal Greenland Trade Department operated as a strict Crown monopoly, and its scrip notes were a practical necessity in settlements where conventional coinage was scarce, impractical to ship, and prone to disappearing into hoarding. The 1819 series — of which this 12 Rigsbankskilling is part — was not a banking instrument in any modern sense but a closed-economy token, redeemable only within the trading stations and useless outside them by design.
Frederick VI had reorganized the Greenland trade administration in 1776, and the monopoly structure it enforced meant these notes circulated among a captive population of Greenlandic traders and Danish company employees. Survival rates are low — the harsh Arctic climate was unkind to paper, and notes were routinely retired within the trading posts rather than formally withdrawn through any central redemption process.