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24 Skilling / 1/5 Speciedaler
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1840-1841 |
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| Value | 24 Skilling (1/5) |
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| Obverse lettering | 24 Sk 1/5 Norges Banks Repræſentativ for en femtedeel Speciedaler. Tronghjem Aar 1841 |
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| Protection description | Three impressed dry stamps applied to the obverse: the Norwegian royal coat of arms at upper left and a Norges Bank institutional stamp at upper right; handwritten year and security number complete the authentication. |
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| Comments |
The 24 Skilling denomination sits at an awkward conversion point in Norwegian monetary history — the speciedaler system divided into 120 skilling, making 24 skilling exactly one-fifth of the primary unit, a fraction rarely seen on European banknotes of the period. Norges Bank issued this during years of genuine monetary scarcity in rural Norway, where small-denomination notes filled gaps that coin production couldn't reliably cover.
Printed in-house at the Bank's own Trondheim facility, individual serial numbers were entered by hand, and the dry stamp applied as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — modest security by any standard, but consistent with what Norwegian infrastructure could support in 1840.