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| Emittent | Landssjóður Íslands (Treasury of Iceland) |
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| Jahr | 1886 |
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| Nennwert | 5 Krónur (5 ISJ) |
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| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Druckerei | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Printed in grey-black on white paper, the obverse carries a portrait vignette of King Christian IX positioned to the left, with a depiction of the Icelandic falcon at the bottom. The design incorporates a bordered text panel bearing the note's denomination and issuing authority, with the overall composition executed in a restrained intaglio style typical of late 19th-century Scandinavian banknote production. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse is essentially blank, printed on plain white paper with no design elements or text, aside from the show-through of the obverse printing and the stylised ÍL watermark visible when the note is held to light. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Iceland's first purpose-designed banknote, issued not by a bank but by the state treasury — an institution with no history of note-issuing before 1885. The decision to bypass the banking system entirely reflected the absence of any chartered commercial bank in Iceland at the time. Thiele of Copenhagen, already well established as a printer of Danish government securities, executed the engraving from Henrik Olrik's design, making this essentially a Danish production for an Icelandic administration.
P#1 status means surviving examples are genuinely rare. Most circulated heavily in a cash-poor island economy where paper was not easily replaced.