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2 Kroner Stord Herad
| Issuer | Stord Herad (Stord Municipality) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper note with a simple typeset design enclosed within a decorative interlaced border. The issuer name "Stord herad" is printed in blackletter script across the upper portion, with the denomination "Tvo kroner" in bold letterpress text at centre. The date "Stord formannskap 1940" appears below the denomination, flanked by the serial number in the upper right, and two handwritten signatures occupy the lower half of the note, with the numeral "2" repeated in each corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stord Herad gjev trygd for Tvo kroner Stord formannskap 1940. (Translation: Stord Herad provide insurance for Two kroner Stord chairmanship 1940.) |
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Stord Herad was one of dozens of Norwegian municipalities forced to issue emergency paper money following the German occupation in April 1940, when the disruption to normal banking channels created acute small-denomination shortages. These kommunale sedler — municipal notes — were a decentralized response to a centralized crisis, authorized locally and redeemed locally, with no national backstop.
Stord, a coastal municipality in Hordaland, issued this 2 Kroner note as a purely functional stop-gap. Most municipal issues from 1940 had very short circulation lives; once Norges Bank reestablished supply chains under occupation conditions, local authorities were instructed to redeem and destroy outstanding stock. Survival rates vary significantly by municipality.