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5 Kroner Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Norway
| Issuer | Shetland Islands |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 5 Kroner |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1999 - 250 |
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The Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a three-masted barque built in 1914 in Bremen, originally as a German sail training vessel named Großherzog Friedrich August. Seized by Britain after World War I, she eventually passed to Norwegian ownership in 1923 when Bergen shipowner Kristoffer Lehmkuhl purchased her for use as a merchant navy training ship. Her connection to Shetland runs through the wartime "Shetland Bus" operations — the covert Allied missions running agents and supplies between Shetland and Nazi-occupied Norway — a maritime tradition this coin quietly acknowledges.
The Shetland Islands Council has issued its own commemorative coinage since the 1980s, though these pieces carry no legal tender status under UK law.