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5 Kroner Sandnes Chairmanship
| Issuer | Sandnes Formannskap (Sandnes Municipal Chairmanship) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Krone (1875-date) |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper letterpress note printed entirely in red, enclosed within a repeating geometric border of alternating diamond and concentric-square motifs in the traditional Norwegian folk art manner. At the head of the note, the title 'Anvisning' appears in bold red script, with the municipal payment obligation set in roman and bold type below, culminating in the emphasized denomination 'KR. 5.00 — FEM KRONER —'. Two manuscript signatures occupy the foot of the note above the official titles 'ORDFØRER' and 'KEMNER', with the printer's imprint 'INGVALD DAHLE, SANDNES' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain cream paper. |
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Norwegian municipal emergency notes are uncommon enough, but Sandnes produced one of the more obscure examples in the country's wartime issues. When the German occupation disrupted normal banking in April 1940, small municipalities were left scrambling for liquidity. The Formannskap — the elected municipal executive body — had no formal currency-issuing authority, which makes this note legally irregular by any peacetime standard.
Printed locally by Ingvald Dahle, a Sandnes commercial printer with no specialized banknote experience, the production values reflect the urgency. These were stopgap instruments, not intended to outlast the crisis by more than weeks.