Catalog
5 Vestindiske Dalere St. Croix
| Issuer | Vestindisk-Guineisk Kompagni (Danish West India and Guinea Company) |
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| Year | 1849 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | FEM VESTINDISKE DALERE Dette Creditbeviis skal alene i de Danske Vestindiske Colonier validere for FEM VESTINDISKE DALERE, saaledes at det i de devaerende Kasser skal imodtages som rede Penge og Betaling oger samme under Hans Kongelige Majestaets. Garanti ffölge Resolution daterat 4th April 1849 udstedt og underskrevet. FIVE DOLLARS (Translation: FIVE WEST INDIAN DOLLARS This credit certificate must only be valid in the Danish West Indian Colonies FIVE WEST INDIAN DOLLARS, in such a way that it must be accepted as ready money in the traveling boxes and Payment and the same under His Royal Majesty. Guarantee following Resolution dated 4th April 1849 issued and signed. FIVE DOLLARS) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 FEM 5 VESTINDISKE DALERE. Five Dollars. (Translation: 5 FIVE 5 FIVE WEST INDIAN DOLLARS. Five Dollars.) |
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The Vestindisk-Guineisk Kompagni had by 1849 been commercially defunct for over a century — the Danish crown had bought out the company in 1755 — yet the colonial administration in the Danish West Indies continued issuing notes under institutional names that reflected older structures. This note belongs to a series tied to St. Croix specifically, meaning it was denominated and payable at that island rather than across the Danish colonial islands as a unified currency zone.
The Vestindiske Daler as a unit was pegged loosely to Spanish colonial currency circulating throughout the Caribbean, not to the Danish rigsdaler. That distinction mattered enormously to merchants.