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5 Rigsdaler Courant Blue paper, with anti-counterfeit text
| Issuer | Kurantbanken (Banken for Danmark) |
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| Year | 1786-1800 |
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| Value | 5 Rigsdaler Courant |
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| Obverse lettering | Fem Rigsdaler Courant. Naar forlanges, betaler Banquen i Kiöbenhavn Fem Rigsdaler skriver 5. Rdlr udi Courante Myndt til den i hænde havende; Imidlertid validere denne Banco Sedel, saa længe den er til, for overmelte Fem Rigsdaler, valuta i Banquen annammet Kiöbenhavn. (Counterfit text): Hvo som gøir falske Banco-Sedler, straffes paa Ære, Liv og Gods, og den der beviisligt angiver saadan een Falskner, nyder til Belønning Eet Tusinde Rigsdaler og Navnet forties. |
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| Protection type | Embossed stamp, Anti-counterfeiting text |
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Kurantbanken — formally the Banken for Danmark — was established in 1736 as Denmark's first note-issuing institution, but by the late eighteenth century it was already overextended, financing state expenditure well beyond its specie reserves. The distinctive blue paper used for this denomination was a deliberate security measure, one of several physical features introduced during this period as counterfeiting of Danish notes had become a serious and documented problem. The anti-counterfeiting text printed into the note's body was unusual for the era — most contemporaneous European issuers relied on engraved complexity rather than explicit textual warnings.
Kurantbanken collapsed in 1813 amid the fiscal catastrophe of the Napoleonic Wars, making this a product of the institution's final decades of solvency.