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Tønder's 1812 emergency scrip belongs to a brief window when the Napoleonic Wars had so thoroughly disrupted Danish state finances — culminating in the 1813 royal bankruptcy — that small municipalities were issuing their own fractional notes to cover everyday commerce. The Danish central government had essentially lost the ability to supply adequate small-denomination currency to the provinces.

Municipal issues from Schleswig at this period are genuinely rare survivors. Most were redeemed or simply worn out of existence in the decade following the establishment of the Rigsbank in 1813.