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5 Krónur Landsbanki Íslands, green
| Issuer | Landsbanki Íslands (National Bank of Iceland) |
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| Year | 1948-1956 |
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| In circulation to | 15 January 1972 |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint. At left, a bust portrait of Jón Eriksson faces right, rendered with fine engraved detail; a blank watermark window occupies the right portion of the note. The denomination numeral '5' appears at both lower corners, with the bank title and statutory inscription running along the upper and lower margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series for Landsbanki Íslands during a period when Iceland was navigating post-war foreign exchange controls and a chronically overvalued króna — conditions that kept denominations like this one in heavy everyday use through the early 1950s. The designer, Jón Thorleifsson, was one of the few Icelandic artists directly involved in shaping the visual identity of the national currency, an unusual degree of domestic input for a note produced entirely abroad.
P#32 was superseded when the 1957 series introduced new security printing and revised iconography. The green colorway distinguishes it cleanly from the near-contemporary brown 5 Krónur issues within the same Bradbury Wilkinson contract.