500 Kroner Famous Men and Women. Type 2, enhanced security features

€208,739.00
IssuerDenmark
Year2003-2008
TypeStandard circulation banknotes
Value500 Kroner
CurrencyKrone (1873-date)
CompositionPaper
Size155 × 72 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterDenmarks Nationalbank`s Banknote Printing Works, Copenhagen, Denmark (1818-2016)
No. printed
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In circulation to31 May 2025
Reference(s) P#63
Obverse descriptionMainly identical with type 1, but there are added more security features. Orange and black on blue underprint. At the right side two rows of orange oval’s in which the yin/yang symbol (which was Niels Bohrs mark) and a portrait of nuclear physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962), with text ”Niels Bohr” and a atom model. Upper left the orange square is replaced with a hologram showing a ”D” (for five hundred) or a atom model above ”500”. The numbers and signatures are printet with luminous colors. Furthermore the main motif from the reverse is printet with ultraviolet color and can only be seen in ultraviolet light.
Reverse descriptionBlue underprint. At the left a knight in armour fighting a dragon, inspired by the font at Lihme Church in northern Jutland. Behind which is a rosette in blue and orange. At the right side an orange circle surrounding the watermark. In the orange circle is the serial specification. Inside the circle a lot of small orange circles.
Signature(s)
Protection typeWatermark
Protection descriptionPortrait of Niels Bohr.Black hidden security thread.Partly wisibel metalic security thread ”window thread” with ”500 KR”
Obverse lettering500 500 FEM HUNDREDE KRONER DANMARKS NATIONALBANK ©
(Translation: Five Hundred Kroner Denmarks National Bank)
Reverse lettering500 FEM HUNDREDE KRONER SERIE 1997 UDSTEDT I HENHOLD TIL LOV OM DANMARKS NATIONALBANK ©
(Translation: Five Hundred Kroner Serie 1997, issued according to law of the Nationalbank of Denmark ©)
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Catalog ID3716678380
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