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24 Skilling Rigsmønt - Frederick VII Handelsstederne i Grønland
| Uitgever | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Royal Greenland Trade Department) |
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| Jaar | 1856 |
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| Waarde | 24 Skilling (1/4) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Black letterpress text on white paper with red underprint elements, including a decorative border, ornamental frames, and a crowned polar bear vignette at right. The denomination appears in a rectangular panel at the top, with the promissory text beneath. To the left, the royal cypher of Frederick VII is printed in red within a rhombus frame, flanked by the denomination below; the crowned Greenlandic polar bear occupies the right side of the note. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 24 Skl.Rm. Denne Anviisning gjelder for Fire og Tyve Skilling Rigsmönt ved Handelsstederne i Grönland. Kjöbenhavn, 1856 (Translation: 24 Skilling Rigsmønt This note is valid for Twentyfour Skilling Rigsmønt at the Trading Posts in Greenland. Copenhagen, 1856) |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Royal Greenland Trade Department operated as a state monopoly over all commerce in Greenland, and these notes functioned as a closed-loop currency — valid only within the trading posts themselves, where the RGTD controlled both the supply of goods and the means of payment. Skilling-denominated issues like this one predate the 1875 decimalization that replaced the rigsdaler system with the krone, placing this note in the last generation of the old monetary reckoning.
Counterfeiting was not a practical concern in the Greenlandic trading post system; the real control problem was ensuring notes didn't migrate outside their intended settlement. The 24 skilling denomination equals exactly one mark, a subdivision that made sense for local wage accounting.