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2 Kroner Moster Municipality
| Issuer | Moster Kommune (Moster Municipality) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Size | 138 × 81 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with a dotted rectangular border enclosing the entire face, with decorative guilloche bands running along the top and bottom edges. The issuer name "Moster Kommune" is inscribed in large script lettering across the upper portion, below which the denomination "Tvo Kroner" appears in bold serif type alongside a handwritten serial number. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower half, accompanied by their respective titles "ordførar" and "heradskasserar", with the denomination numeral "2" repeated in each corner within small square frames. |
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| Obverse lettering | Moster Kommune gjev trygd for Tvo Kroner No Moster formannskap 1940. ordførar. heradskasserar. |
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Moster is a small island community in Hordaland, and this 2 Kroner note is one of the emergency municipal issues that appeared across occupied Norway after the German invasion in April 1940 disrupted normal banking and coin supply. Dozens of Norwegian municipalities resorted to printing their own provisional currency that year — a practical response to a sudden shortage of small change, not a coordinated policy.
The NP# N86 reference places this within the documented Norwegian provisional series, though surviving examples from small island municipalities like Moster are considerably harder to locate than those from larger urban centers.