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5 Vestindiske Dalere St. Croix
| Uitgever | Vestindisk-Guineisk Kompagni (Danish West India and Guinea Company) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1849 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Light violet reverse executed in a plain typographic style, with the large numeral 5 appearing at both left and right flanking a central oval guilloche cartouche bearing the word FEM in bold serif lettering. The denomination is restated below in two lines, alternating Gothic and script typefaces, in both Danish and English. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | 5 FEM 5 VESTINDISKE DALERE. Five Dollars. (Translation: 5 FIVE 5 FIVE WEST INDIAN DOLLARS. Five Dollars.) |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.