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500 Krónur Landsbanki Íslands, green colour
| Issuer | Landsbanki Íslands |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Green on multicolour underprint. Intaglio portrait of Jón Sigurdsson positioned at left, with the watermark field reserved at right. The vignette is framed by fine guilloche work with the issuer name and denomination rendered in period letterpress. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Landsbanki Íslands had used Bradbury Wilkinson for its higher denominations since the 1920s, and this 500 Krónur continues that relationship — the New Malden press was one of the few British security printers capable of the fine intaglio work the bank demanded. The 1944 date places production during the Allied occupation of Iceland, when the island's wartime position made maintaining printing contracts with British firms logistically complicated but not impossible.
Jón Thorleifsson's involvement as designer is worth noting — local artistic direction on notes printed abroad was not universal practice, and his credit suggests the bank retained deliberate control over national visual identity even when the physical work happened overseas.