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5 Kroner - Oscar II King Oscar II issue; pattern

Emittent Norges Bank
Jahr 1876-1877
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Black intaglio print on a blue and blue-brown underprint, with a vignette portrait of King Oscar II in admiral's uniform positioned to the left. The central and right portions carry the denomination and statutory text, framed within decorative guilloche work. Lettering spans the upper and lower registers with the issuer name and face value rendered in bold typeface.
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this proof-stage note at their New Malden works during a period when Norges Bank was actively modernizing its currency series following the Scandinavian Monetary Union treaty of 1873, which tied Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to a shared gold-backed kroner standard. Whether this design was formally rejected or simply superseded during internal review is not documented in the bank's published records — "pattern" designations in Norwegian issues of this period often reflect multiple competing submissions rather than a single failed proposal.

Christian Christie was a Norwegian artist whose involvement suggests Norges Bank was seeking domestic design input even while contracting foreign security printers. Very few impressions from this submission are known to exist outside institutional collections.

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