Catalog
50 Krooni
| Issuer | Eesti Pank (Bank of Estonia) |
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| Year | 1929 |
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| Size | 158 × 100 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | EESTI PANK 50 VIISKÜMMEND KROONI 1929 SEE PÄNGATÄHT ON VÄLJA ANTUD 3 MAI 1927 A. RAHASEADUSE JA PANGA PÕHIKIRJA ALUSEL (Translation: Bank of Estonia Fifty Krooni This banknote was issued under the Money Act of May 3rd 1927 and the bank`s statutes.) |
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| Reverse lettering | VIISKÜMMEND 50 KROONI (Translation: Fifty Krooni) |
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The 50 Krooni of 1929 was part of the first fully domestically produced series for the kroon, Estonia's currency introduced in 1928 to replace the mark at a rate of 100:1 following years of post-independence inflation. That the Riigi Trükikoda could print it at all was a point of national pride — earlier Estonian notes had depended on foreign contractors.
Günther Reindorff was one of the most significant graphic artists working in interwar Estonia, and his involvement across the kroon series gave it a visual coherence unusual for a newly established central bank. Karl Doll, who signed his engraving work as "Tael," trained in the European tradition and brought a level of intaglio craft rarely seen from a domestic printshop of that period.