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50 Kroner
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1996-2015 |
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| Value | 50 Kroner |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of folklorist and naturalist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812–1885) at right, set against a green guilloche underprint with a stylized forest vignette in the centre. A large octagonal green rosette appears to the left of the portrait, with the denomination numeral '50' in bold green at lower left and upper right; the issuer name 'NORGES BANK' runs vertically at far left. The name and life dates of Asbjørnsen are inscribed vertically along the right margin alongside the Norges Bank colour-shifting logo. |
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| Reverse description | An intricate green intaglio composition of water lily pads and blooms across the full field, with two dragonflies rendered in fine line engraving at lower centre. The denomination numeral '50' appears at upper right above the print year, and the legend 'FEMTI KRONER' runs along the lower edge; 'NORGES BANK' is printed vertically at left. Two facsimile signatures of bank officials appear at right alongside a guilloche panel and a small key motif. |
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, the folklorist who co-collected Norway's defining body of fairy tales, anchored this denomination for nearly two decades — an unusually long run for a Norges Bank series. The note was printed in-house at Norges Bank Seddeltrykk in Moss, the facility that handled all Norwegian banknote production before it was wound down in 2014, which makes the 2015-dated issues among the last notes the press ever produced.
Four governor pairings across nineteen years reflects genuine institutional continuity rather than serial reissue — each signature combination corresponds to a distinct print run rather than a redesign.