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20 liter bensin Bensinstasjonen ved Østbanen
| Issuer | Bensinstasjonen ved Østbanen (Heyerdahl & Co A/S) |
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| Year | 1940-1980 |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white coupon printed in black letterpress throughout, with no vignette or decorative underprint. The issuer's name appears in large bold type across the top, followed by the company name in parentheses and telephone number, with the entitlement text and quantity set in italics below. A handwritten vehicle registration line runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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This is a petrol coupon — not a banknote in any conventional sense — issued by a private filling station operating near Oslo's Østbanen (East Station). The "20 liter bensin" denomination is a fuel quantity, not a monetary value, placing this firmly in the tradition of Norwegian private emergency scrip and commodity vouchers that proliferated during and after the German occupation, when rationing made fuel an effectively parallel currency.
Heyerdahl & Co A/S appears in Norwegian commercial records as a fuel distributor. The 1940–1980 dating window is broad enough to suggest the issuer couldn't pin down the specific run — not unusual for ephemeral trade tokens of this type, most of which were never catalogued at issue.