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5 Krónur Landsbanki Íslands, brown colour
| Issuer | Landsbanki Íslands (National Bank of Iceland) |
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| Year | 1935-1947 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, New Malden, Surrey, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 LANDSBANKI ÍSLANDS 5 serialnumber FIMM KRÓNUR SAMKVÆMT LÖGUM NR.10. 15 APRIL 1928 LANDSBANKI ÍSLANDS 5 serial number two signatures 5 (Translation: National Bank of Iceland Five Kronur According to Law NO.10. April 15, 1928 National Bank of Iceland) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper. A blank watermark window occupies the left portion of the note, while to the right a vignette presents the main building of the Landsbanki Íslands. Corner numerals repeat the denomination 5, and the printer's imprint appears at the lower margin. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series across a twelve-year window that included Iceland's 1944 declaration of independence from Denmark — an event that left the Landsbanki's note designs entirely unchanged, since institutional continuity was the political priority and a new currency identity could wait. The bank had been issuing notes denominated in króna since 1886, always through foreign printers, and this series continued that dependence on British security printers without interruption.
Jón Thorleifsson's design credit is relatively rare for Icelandic notes of this period. The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature — no thread, no UV-reactive elements, consistent with Bradbury Wilkinson's standard output for smaller issuing authorities in the 1930s.