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2 Øre Halvor J. Aasland
| Issuer | Halvor J. Aasland |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Må ikke omsettes! Innehaveren herav har til gode 2 ØRE av HALVOR J. AASLAND |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain grayish-brown paper stock; the obverse impression is faintly visible in mirror image as show-through from the letterpress printing. |
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Halvor J. Aasland was a Norwegian merchant or tradesman who issued this small-denomination necessity note privately — a practice that persisted in rural and semi-rural Norwegian communities into the early twentieth century when coin shortages made low-value transactions genuinely difficult. S&B#1252 places it within the Seddel & Bon cataloguing of Norwegian local and private issues, a category that tends to be poorly documented and thinly traded.
Oluf Rasmussens Trykkeri in Skien was a regional press, not a security printer. The grayish-brown paper is characteristic of commercial job printing rather than any attempt at anti-counterfeiting.