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5 Kroner Grønlands Styrelse. Type I, pattern outside frame
| Issuer | Grønlands Styrelse (Greenland's Administration) |
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| Year | 1926-1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | GRØNLANDS STYRELSE (Translation: Greenland's Administration) |
| Signature(s) | Daugaard Jensen & Sveistrup with additional military overprint "Stationen Thule" Oldendow & Sveistrup large Eske Brun & Sveistrup Eske Brun & Ole Pedersen |
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Grønlands Styrelse was a Danish colonial administrative body, and its banknotes were essentially scrip — internal currency for a territory where the state monopolized trade through the Royal Greenland Trading Company. The "Stationen Thule" military overprint on the Daugaard Jensen & Sveistrup signature variant is the most historically loaded piece of this series: Thule Station in northwest Greenland operated as a Danish military post, and the overprinted notes effectively created a localized sub-currency for that installation, separating its transactions from general Greenlandic circulation.
Four distinct signature combinations across a roughly twenty-year span makes census attribution tricky. The Eske Brun signatures are worth noting — he served as Governor of Greenland through the German occupation of Denmark, maintaining a degree of Greenlandic administrative independence from 1940 onward under American protection.