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50 Øre Handelsstederne i Grønland, Type II: Stamped serial number, Ivigtut star
| Issuer | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Danish Trading Posts in Greenland) |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on plain paper within a decorative border, with the denomination numeral repeated in all four corners and along three sides of the frame. The central text panel carries the promissory inscription surrounding the value numeral, flanked on either side by the Greenlandic coat of arms, with an official seal at the top and two manuscript or printed signatures below the value; between the signatures, a small star denotes the Ivigtut branch. The stamped serial number appears 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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Greenland's Danish trading post currency occupied a peculiar legal space — these notes were not issued by a bank or a government treasury but by the commercial network of trading stations administered under the Danish colonial trading monopoly. The 50 Øre denomination functioned as scrip within that closed economy, where conventional Danish coinage rarely reached in usable quantities.
The Ivigtut star designation distinguishes notes stamped for use at the cryolite mining settlement on the southwest coast — one of Greenland's few genuinely industrial sites in this period and commercially significant enough to warrant its own identified issue within the series. The stamped serial number places this as Type II, distinguishing it from the earlier manuscript-numbered examples.