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20 Skilling
| Issuer | Grønlands Administration |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GRØNLANDS ADMINISTRATION Grønlands Administration Handels Værdimærke Trade Certificate 20 20 Skilling |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted and appears as a plain light-coloured paper surface, with the design elements of the obverse visible as a faint mirror-image show-through; no independent design, text, or vignette is present on this side. |
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Grønlands Administration issued this note after Denmark fell under German occupation in April 1940, severing the island's administrative and financial ties to Copenhagen. With no reliable supply line to the metropole, local authorities in Greenland had to improvise a functioning currency system essentially from scratch — these emergency issues were the result.
The 1942 series was printed locally under wartime conditions, and the production quality reflects those constraints. Paper sourced and printed on the island, far outside any established note-printing infrastructure.
Greenland's wartime currency was backed, informally, by American economic support as the U.S. took on a de facto protective role under the 1941 Kauffmann agreement.