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50 Öre Spitsbergen Swedish Coalfield LC
| Issuer | Aktiebolaget Spetsbergens Svenska Kolfält |
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| Year | 1920-1924 |
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| Size | 95 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset wage-advance voucher printed in black on white paper with a central pink guilloche rosette underprint. The issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script occupies the upper half, with series and serial number boxes at upper left and right. The denomination "50" appears in large bold numerals at centre, flanked by "ÖRE" on each side, above the spelled-out value "(FEMTIO)". Conditions of use are set in letterpress text below, with a manuscript signature at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse printing visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Aktiebolaget Spetsbergens Svenska Kolfält was a Swedish mining company operating on Svalbard under the territorial ambiguity that preceded the 1920 Svalbard Treaty — the archipelago had no formal sovereign until Norway assumed sovereignty under that agreement. Company scrip of this kind functioned as the only practical currency in remote Arctic mining settlements, where there were no banks, no postal services, and no accessible commercial infrastructure.
The LC suffix designates a specific plate or control series within the issue. Swedish Arctic mining scrip from this period survives in small numbers; the operating conditions alone — humidity, extreme cold, rough handling in company stores — were hard on paper.