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2 Speciedaler / 20 Rigsbankdaler Samfund af Christiandsands innvaanere, Christiansand
| Issuer | Samfund af Christiansands Indvaanere |
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| Year | 1817 |
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| Value | 2 Speciedaler / 20 Rigsbankdaler |
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| Obverse lettering | To Speciedlr. No. 20 Rbdlr. Hos det offentlig anmeldte Samfund af Christiansands Indvaanere er deponeret et Laane- og Disconto-Indretnings Pengerepræsentativ paa 20 Speciedaler, hvorimod er udstædt 10 af disse Deposito-Beviser, lydende hver for sig paa 2 Speciedaler, hvilke igjen mod bemeldte Repræsentativ ombyttes naar forlanges. Christiansand 1817. Paa Samfundets Vegne Indtil ombytning igjen skeer, opbevares det indbemeldte Depositum, under Udstædernes forsegling, af Undertegnede |
| Reverse description | Reverse shows show-through impression of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock, with no intentional printing; the surface is otherwise plain and unprinted. |
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The "Samfund af Christiansands Indvaanere" — roughly, the Association of Christiansand's Inhabitants — was not a bank. It was an emergency civic body formed when the post-1814 monetary chaos left southern Norway's commercial life effectively paralyzed. Denmark's cession of Norway to Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel had severed the old currency supply lines, and the Riksbank was not yet functioning as a reliable replacement. Local merchants and citizens pooled their collective credit and issued these notes themselves to keep trade moving.
Skaare 1678 is among the rarest categories of Norwegian necessity paper — municipal rather than institutional, with survival rates reflecting both limited original production and active post-crisis redemption drives.