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12 Skilling - Christian VII Kongelige Grønlandske Handel
| Issuer | Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenlandic Trade) |
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| Year | 1804 |
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| Value | 12 Skilling (1/8) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red ink on plain paper, with a simple ruled border framing the note on all sides. The royal cypher of Christian VII appears in the upper left corner, with the serial number positioned to the upper right. The promissory text is set within a central diamond-shaped cartouche, giving the note its characteristic typographic layout. |
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| Obverse lettering | 12 Skilling. Den Kongelige Grönlandſke Handel betaler denne Anviisning ved Handelsſtederne i Grönland med 12 Skill., ſkriver Tolv Skilling Danſk Courant. Kiöbenhavn 1804. (Translation: 12 Skilling. The Royal Greenlandic Trading will pay this note at the trading posts in Greenland with 12 Skilling, written twelve Skilling Danish Courant. Copenhagen 1804) |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel was a Danish crown monopoly that controlled all trade with Greenland, and its paper money was never legal tender in Denmark itself — it functioned purely as a scrip currency within the colony, redeemable only through the company's own trading posts. The 1804 series to which this note belongs was printed in Copenhagen and shipped north, meaning any note that survived did so against considerable odds: damp, cold, and the logistical brutality of Arctic colonial commerce were not kind to paper.
Christian VII, whose reign these notes carry, had been declared legally incompetent decades before 1804; effective power rested with the crown prince. The king's name on the note is protocol, not governance.