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5 Kroner Christie-issue
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1901-1944 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990); Norges Banks Seddeltrykkeri, Norway (1816-2007) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green on brown underprint with red serial numbers, black dates, and black signature. At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie, statesman, secretary of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly, and president of the National Assembly of Norway. Denomination numeral appears at right within the overall guilloche framework. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 5 NORGES BANK betaler mod denne Seddel til Ihændehaveren FEM KRONER GULD 5 5 |
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The design on the reverse is the work of Christian Christie, the Norwegian painter after whom this series is informally named — an unusual distinction, since most Norges Bank note designs of the period were outsourced wholesale to British commercial engravers. Production was split between Bradbury Wilkinson in England and Norges Banks Seddeltrykkeri in Christiania (later Oslo), and examples from the two print sources are not always easy to distinguish without examining paper stock and impression quality closely.
The series ran across three signature combinations over more than four decades, covering the transition from the union with Sweden through the German occupation. Notes issued under the Meldahl-Nielsen signature were still being dated into the early occupation years.