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50 Øre / 24 Skilling - Christian IX Handelsstederne i Grønland
| Issuer | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel) |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Value | 50 Øre (0.5 DKK) |
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| Obverse description | Grey-brown letterpress print on light brown paper, with the denomination numeral repeated in each corner of an oval frame. The central vignette carries the promissory text and value over a pair of dolphins, flanked to the left by the royal cypher of Christian IX and to the right by a crowned polar bear. A Greenlandic-language legend in pre-1973 orthography runs along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Denne Anviisning gjelder for 50 Øre 50 Øre ved Handelsstederne i Grönland. Kjöbenhavn 1874 AgdlagaK tamána akeKarpoK naparlangũgalaup imalũnît Skilingit 24 nalingánik (Translation: This note is valid for 50 øre at the trading posts in Greenland Copenhagen 1874 This note costs one small barrel or 24 Skiling in value.) |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel — the Royal Greenland Trade Department — operated as a Danish crown monopoly over all commerce in Greenland, and its trading post notes functioned as a closed-circuit currency valid only within that system. The 1874 series was denominated in both the old rigsmønt unit (skilling) and the new decimal krone unit (øre) simultaneously, bridging the Danish monetary reform of 1875 before it had technically taken effect in Greenland.
These notes circulated among Greenlandic workers and hunters as store credit rather than sovereign currency — redeemable only at company posts, with no legal tender status outside the monopoly's own ledgers.