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50 Speciedaler
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Currency | Speciedaler (1816-1875) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Spd 50 Mod denne Seddel betaler Norges Bank til Ihændehaveren Femti Speciedalere Sølv. Trondhjem Aar 1861 |
| Reverse description | Blank, without any printed or engraved design. |
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Norges Bank established its own printing works in 1816, the same year the bank itself was founded — an unusual degree of vertical integration for a central bank of that period. By 1861, the Trondheim facility was producing notes on paper sourced from Bentsebrug mill, a well-documented domestic supply relationship that reflected deliberate policy to keep the currency supply chain within Norwegian borders, then still under Swedish union.
The 50 Speciedaler was a high-denomination instrument in a monetary system where the Speciedaler remained Norway's primary unit until decimalization replaced it with the Krone in 1875.