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5 Kroner Bergens Kommune
| Issuer | Bergens Kommune (Municipality of Bergen) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue-green underprint with a fine wavy guilloche pattern across the entire field, enclosed within a decorative border of repeated scroll ornaments. The issuer name BERGENS KOMMUNE appears in bold letterpress at upper right, with a serial number box at upper left. The central denomination legend KR. 5 - FEM KRONER is printed in large bold type, with authorisation text above and below in smaller characters. At the foot of the note, a small vignette of the Bergen municipal coat of arms — a fortified castle — is centred between two manuscript signatures, each identified by an official title beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue on plain white paper, the reverse is dominated by a central vignette of the Bergen municipal coat of arms — a detailed heraldic fortified castle with twin towers, arched gateway, and a stepped base — flanked on either side by the issuer name BERGENS KOMMUNE in wide-spaced bold capitals. The numeral 5 appears in each of the four corners, and the entire design is contained within the same scroll-ornament border found on the obverse. |
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Bergen's municipal government issued emergency notes in 1940 following the German occupation of Norway and the subsequent disruption to normal banking and currency supply. This 5 Kroner piece was one of several local necessity issues that appeared across Norwegian municipalities in the weeks after the April invasion, filling a genuine transactional vacuum while the occupying administration worked to assert control over the country's financial institutions.
Municipal issuers of this kind are rarely documented with precision — production quantities, redemption records, and authorization chains were often handled informally under occupation conditions, which makes surviving examples genuinely useful to researchers piecing together the administrative history of Norway in the early occupation period.