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50 Kroner Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel
| Issuer | Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (The Royal Greenlandic Trade) |
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| Year | 1953-1967 |
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| Currency | Krone (1873-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a full-rigged sailing clipper ship within an oval guilloche frame, flanked on either side by large ornate numeral "50" medallions. A serial number appears at the top centre, with two manuscript signatures below the central vignette. The issuer inscription runs along the bottom in letterpress, and the text "Denne Anvisning gælder ved Handelsstederne i Grønland for" arcs above the central design in a banner. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 KRONER 50 KRONER DEN KONGELIGE GRØNLANDSKE HANDEL 50 KRONER 50 KRONER (Translation: 50 Kroner 50 Kroner The Royal Greenlandic Trading 50 Kroner 50 Kroner) |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel was a Danish state monopoly that controlled virtually all commerce in Greenland from the eighteenth century until 1953, when it was reorganized under new administrative structures following Greenland's transition from colony to Danish county. These notes were not general-circulation currency in any conventional sense — they functioned within a closed trading economy where the KGH controlled wages, goods, and the script used to obtain them, a system closer to company scrip than to sovereign currency.
The series ran until 1967, when Greenland was formally integrated into the Danish monetary system and Danish kroner replaced KGH notes entirely. Surviving examples in any grade are genuinely uncommon outside Greenlandic institutional collections.