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12 Skilling Rigsmønt - Frederick VII Handelsstederne i Grønland
| Issuer | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel) |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Value | 12 Skilling (1/8) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on white paper with red and black ornamental devices. The denomination '12 Skl.Rm.' appears within a frame at the top, flanked at upper left by the royal cipher of Frederick VII and at lower right by the crowned Greenlandic polar bear vignette. The promissory text occupies the central field, with a decorative device below the monogram on the left margin and the value repeated at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 12 Skl.Rm. Denne Anviisning gjelder for Tolv Skilling Rigsmönt ved Handelsstederne i Grönland. Kjöbenhavn, 1856 (Translation: 12 Skilling Rigsmønt This note is valid for twelve Skilling Rigsmønt at the Trading Posts in Greenland. Copenhagen, 1856) |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel — the Royal Greenland Trade Department — held a complete state monopoly over Greenland's economy, and these notes functioned as a closed scrip system: issued to colonists and Greenlandic workers at the trading posts, and redeemable only within that same network. They could not circulate freely or leave the system in any meaningful way. That captivity is precisely why surviving examples are so rare; notes that never left the trading posts were simply worn out or destroyed in place rather than saved.
The 1856 series was struck during Frederick VII's reign, a period when the KGH was tightening administrative control over the Greenlandic settlements.