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50 Øre Great Norwegian Spitsbergen Coal Company
| Uitgever | Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (The Great Norwegian Spitsbergen Coal Company) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1938-1942 |
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| Waarde | 50 Øre |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Printed entirely in orange on white paper, the obverse carries a dense all-over guilloche-style hatched underprint across the entire field. The issuer name 'Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani Aktieselskap' is set in bold display type at centre, above the denomination '50 – Femti øre' in large letterpress characters, with the numerals '50' rendered in very large italic script as a background watermark-style element. Series letter and serial number appear in the upper corners, and two manuscript signatures with their respective titles — Styrets formann and Kontorsjef, Spitsbergen — are placed at the lower left and lower right. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | 50øre |
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| Opmerkingen |
Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani operated its own closed monetary system on Svalbard, where Norwegian sovereignty — confirmed by the 1920 Svalbard Treaty — coexisted uneasily with a largely self-sufficient mining economy. These company tokens, issued in paper rather than metal, functioned as scrip redeemable only within the company store at Longyearbyen. Workers had little practical alternative: the nearest conventional bank was on the Norwegian mainland, hundreds of miles away.
The wartime span of this issue matters. German forces occupied Svalbard briefly in 1941, and the entire civilian population was evacuated by the British. Whatever scrip remained in circulation at that point was effectively stranded — which accounts for why intact examples from this series surface so rarely.