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25 øre Holla Sparebank
| Issuer | Holla Sparebank |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Printer | Oluf Rasmussens Trykkeri, Skien, Norway |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on thin white paper, with the issuer name HOLLA SPAREBANK rendered in a yellow underprint and enclosed within a yellow rectangular border frame. The denomination 25 ØRE and the date 1941 are centrally stated, accompanied by guarantee and circulation inscriptions in Norwegian. A printed facsimile cashier signature appears in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse on thin white paper, without any printed design, lettering, or ornamentation; faint show-through of the obverse green print is visible due to the thinness of the paper stock. |
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Holla Sparebank was a small savings bank serving the Holla municipality in Telemark. During the German occupation of Norway, the disruption to normal coin supply prompted numerous local institutions — savings banks, municipalities, and cooperative societies — to issue their own small-denomination emergency notes. This 25 øre piece is part of that broader wartime phenomenon, printed locally by Oluf Rasmussens Trykkeri in Skien, the regional center for Telemark.
The HGE catalogue (Hoel, Gjølberg, Eidem) documents several varieties for this issuer across the occupation years, the suffix "e" indicating this is the fifth recorded variant — differences typically involving paper stock, ink shade, or minor typographic changes between print runs.