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50 Øre Handelsstederne i Grønland, Type I: Handwritten serial number
| Issuer | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel) |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Size | 120 × 81 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative rectangular frame with the denomination '50 ØRE' repeated in all four corners and along three borders. A central promissory text surrounds the face value, surmounted by an official seal, with the Greenlandic coat of arms flanking the value on either side. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central value, and a handwritten serial number is placed along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Denne Anvisning gjælder ved Handelsstederne i Grønland for 50 ØRE Kjøbenhavn 1888 (Translation: This note is valid at the Trading Posts in Greenland for 50 Øre Copenhagen 1888) |
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Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel — the Royal Greenlandic Trade monopoly — issued these notes exclusively for use within the trading posts it operated along the Greenlandic coast. They were not legal tender in Denmark proper and could not be redeemed outside the colony, functioning instead as a closed scrip system designed to keep commerce locked within the monopoly's own network. The 1888 issue is the earliest in the series.
Serial numbers were applied by hand, which in practice means no two surviving examples are entirely alike and attribution of print runs is impossible with precision.