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50 Rigsdaler Courant Blue paper, with anti-counterfeit text
| Uitgever | Kurantbanken (Bank of Copenhagen) |
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| Jaar | 1785-1794 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The left portion bears an ornate typographic vignette with the Roman numeral L denoting the denomination of 50, alongside the promissory text and stated value in Danish. Two handwritten manuscript signatures appear in the body of the note, accompanied by an impressed (dry-stamped) royal coat of arms serving as an authentication device. An anti-counterfeiting warning text is set to the right, threatening loss of honour, life, and property for forgery while offering a reward of one thousand Rigsdaler for denouncing counterfeiters. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Reverse is blank, left unprinted. |
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Kurantbanken — formally the Kurant og Laane Bank, established in 1736 — was Denmark's first bank of issue, and by the 1780s it was already in serious trouble. Decades of overissuance against insufficient specie reserves had eroded public confidence well before the state bankruptcy of 1813 finally wound the institution down. Notes from this decade circulated into a market that increasingly discounted them against silver.
The blue paper itself was the primary security measure — tinted stock was one of the few practical anti-counterfeiting tools available to Copenhagen printers at the time. The impressed seal added a second layer, difficult to fake without the original die.