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20 Speciedalere Trondheim
| Issuer | Norges midlertidige Laane- og Disconto Indretning, Trondheim |
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| Year | 1817 |
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| Size | 170 x 122 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper. Upper left carries a square decorative vignette alongside Roman numeral XX; the institution's initials appear to the right, with the denomination stated at top centre. The body of the note is occupied by a multi-line promissory text in period Norwegian script, below which manuscript signatures and a handwritten serial number appear at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | I Overenstemmelse med Lov af 14. 1816 Junii giælder denne Seddel for 20 Norske Speciedalere i alle Betalinger til den midlertidige Laane- og Disconto Indretning i Trondheim og til dens Interessenter for hvilke TYVE Norske Speciedalere er stillet lovbetalet Sikkerhed. Directionen i Trondheim 1817. (Translation: In accordance with the Act of 14. 1816 June, this banknote is legal for 20 Speciedaler in all payments to the temporary Laane- og disconto Indretning in Trondheim and to its stakeholders for which 20 Norwegian Speciedalere are provided by statutory security. Directionen in Trondheim 1817.) |
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Norges midlertidige Laane- og Disconto Indretning — Norway's provisional lending and discount institution — was established in the immediate aftermath of the 1814 independence, when the newly sovereign country had virtually no functioning banking infrastructure. This Trondheim branch was one of several regional bodies scrambling to meet credit demand before Norges Bank was formally chartered in 1816 and began actual operations in 1817.
The timing matters: notes from this institution were circulating during the painful transition away from the Danish rigsdaler system toward the new speciedaler, a period of significant monetary confusion and public distrust. Printed locally in Trondheim rather than by an established security printer, the notes were crudely produced by contemporary standards — a known vulnerability that made them relatively easy to counterfeit.