5 Rigsdaler Courant White paper, with anti-counterfeit text

Kurantbanken — formally the Banco- og Assignations-, Vexel- og Laane-Banken — operated under royal charter from 1736 as Denmark's primary note-issuing institution, but by the 1770s it was already overextended, financing state debt rather than functioning as a true commercial bank. The anti-counterfeiting text printed directly into the note's face was a direct response to the sophisticated forgeries circulating in Copenhagen during this period, a problem serious enough to prompt official warnings in the Berlingske Tidende.

The bank collapsed in 1813 under the weight of the Napoleonic Wars' fiscal damage. Notes from this series were never redeemed at par.