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500 Kroner Famous Men and Women. Type 1
| Issuer | Danmarks Nationalbank |
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| Year | 1997-2003 |
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| Reference(s) | P#58 |
| Obverse description | Orange and black on blue underprint. At right, two vertical rows of orange ovals enclosing the yin/yang symbol — the personal emblem of nuclear physicist Niels Bohr (1885–1962) — alongside an intaglio portrait of Bohr and a schematic atom model, with the inscription "NIELS BOHR" below. Upper left carries an orange square bearing the denomination numeral "D" (stylised for five hundred) with a latent atom model incorporated into the guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | At left, a vignette of a knight in armour engaged in combat with a dragon, derived from the Romanesque font at Lihme Church in northern Jutland, set against a rosette pattern in blue and orange guilloche. At right, a large orange circle encloses the serial specification area, with the watermark window positioned at centre; the interior of the circle is filled with a repeating pattern of small orange circles. |
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The "Famous Men and Women" series marked a deliberate shift for Danmarks Nationalbank — away from allegorical figures toward identifiable Danes of historical achievement. The 500 kroner is the highest denomination in the series and consequently saw relatively brisk commercial use, making genuinely uncirculated examples harder to find than the lower values.
Six distinct signature combinations were issued across the production window, reflecting board-level changes at the Nationalbank. The 1997 inaugural release carried three different pairings, an unusually dense spread of variants for a single calendar year.