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5 Kroner 1948-1976, Nansen & fishing
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1955-1963 |
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| Size | 125 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print on white paper, with the watermark window occupying the far left margin, above which the date year is printed and below which the serial number appears. A vignette at left carries a portrait of Fridtjof Nansen, rendered after a painting, with the crowned national coat of arms placed directly beneath it; the centre of the note bears the denomination in both numeral and word form, together with two facsimile signatures above their respective printed titles. Fine guilloche work frames the composition throughout. |
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| Obverse lettering | NORGES BANK 5 FEM KRONER Eirik Brofoss Jacob Ottersen DIREKSJONENS FORMANN HOVEDKASSERER |
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Fridtjof Nansen's appearance on this series was no arbitrary choice — by the postwar period he had become Norway's most symbolically loaded public figure, his humanitarian work after 1918 lending the currency a moral weight that suited a nation rebuilding its institutions after German occupation. The note was part of a broader redesign effort in which Arnstein Arneberg, better known as the co-architect of Oslo City Hall, brought an architectural discipline to the layout rather than the painterly softness common in contemporary Scandinavian note design.
The signature progression across prefix runs from 1955 through 1963 documents the transition from Thorp to Ottesen as the second signatory under Brofoss — a quiet administrative record embedded in the series itself.