Catalog
50 Speciedaler
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1866-1877 |
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| Currency | Speciedaler (1816-1875) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green, red and black on green paper. The upper central vignette presents four male figures personifying Norway's traditional occupations — bakery, fishery, farming and seafaring — arranged around the national coat of arms. Below the vignette, the legal tender text and denomination appear in letterpress, flanked on each side by decorative guilloche pillars composed of the numeral value. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Norges Bank established its own printing works in Christiania (Oslo) in 1816, but production of certain high-denomination notes was handled at the Trondheim branch, which maintained independent printing capacity well into the latter half of the century. The paper itself came from Saunders Paper Mill, a British supplier whose watermarked stock was used specifically because domestic Norwegian papermaking could not yet meet the technical standards required for secure currency production.
The speciedaler was abolished in 1875 when Norway joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union and adopted the krone, making any note dated after that year a transitional instrument redeemed almost immediately upon presentation.