Catalog
50 Kroner
| Issuer | Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn |
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| Year | 1875-1881 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A82 |
| Obverse description | Light blue print on white paper within an ornate border of Greek and heraldic guilloche elements, with cursive lettering along the top rail and denomination numerals at top and bottom centre. The face value is spelled out in full across the centre field, with the exchange promise and legal text below, and two manuscript signatures at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | NATIONALBANKEN 50 I KJØBENHAVN HALVTREDSENTYVE KRONER Vexles paa Anfordring med Guldmønt NATIONALBANKEN I KJØBENHAVN 1875 (Translation: The National Bank 50 in Copenhagen Fifty Kroner Exchangeable on demand with gold coin The National Bank in Copenhagen 1875) |
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Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn issued this series under the National Bank Act of 1818, which gave the institution its monopoly on note issuance — a privilege it had fought to defend against repeated political pressure throughout the mid-nineteenth century. The 1875–1881 dating reflects a relatively short issuing window, and surviving examples are uncommon, particularly in circulated grades, as large-denomination notes in late nineteenth-century Denmark moved through relatively few hands before being returned to the bank.
Magnus Petersen was a prominent Danish antiquarian artist, better known for his work documenting medieval church frescoes. His involvement in banknote design was a deliberate institutional choice toward scholarly respectability rather than purely decorative engraving.