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50 Krónur Landsbanki Íslands, green colour
| Issuer | Landsbanki Íslands |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 L I 50 50 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series for Landsbanki Íslands through much of the mid-twentieth century, and Jón Thorleifsson's design work gave the Icelandic issues a distinctly domestic character at a time when most small-nation central banks simply accepted whatever template a foreign printer handed them. The 1948 dating places this note squarely in Iceland's postwar reconstruction period, when the króna was under significant inflationary pressure and the government was navigating Marshall Plan aid alongside tight import controls.
Pick 34 is the green variant within the 50 Krónur series — Landsbanki issued multiple colour iterations across successive printings, a practice that occasionally creates attribution confusion between catalogue numbers.