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5 Speciedaler
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1868 |
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| Value | 5 Speciedalers |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 NORGES BANK 5 5 5 FEM FEM TRONDHJEM AAR 1868 Mod denne Seddel betaler Norges Bank til Ihændehaveren FEM SPECIEDALERE Sølv |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 FEM 5 FEM NORGES BANK FEM 5 FEM 5 (Translation: Five Five Norway Bank Five Five) |
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Norges Bank established its own printing works in 1816 — one of the earliest central banks in Europe to do so — specifically to avoid dependence on foreign printers for a newly independent nation's currency. By 1868 that operation was well established in Trondheim, though the speciedaler itself was already living on borrowed time: Norway would abandon the species standard and adopt the krone in 1875 as part of the Scandinavian Monetary Union.
The paper sourced from Saunders Paper Mill — almost certainly the English firm with a long record of supplying security paper to European note issuers — is the primary anti-counterfeiting element, with the watermark doing the work that more elaborate intaglio printing might handle elsewhere.