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500 Krónur Seðlabanki Íslands
| Issuer | Seðlabanki Íslands (Central Bank of Iceland) |
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| Year | 1968-1980 |
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| Value | 500 Krónur (500 ISJ) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 500 SEÐLABANKI ÍSLANDS 500 serialnumber FIMM HUNDRUÐ KRÓNUR SAMKVÆMT LÖGUM NR. 10. 29. MARZ 1961 Signatures serialnumber 500 Hannes Hafstein 500 (Translation: Five Hundred Krónur According to Law No. 10. 29 March 1961) |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Sveinn Björnsson, first President of Iceland, visible in the reserved field on the right side of the note when held to light. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series across a twelve-year window, with individual notes dated by hand or by the issuing bank rather than at press — a span long enough that paper batches and ink formulations visibly shifted between early and late examples. The series preceded Iceland's major currency reforms of the early 1980s, which replaced the króna at a rate of 100 old to 1 new, rendering the entire P#45 run obsolete almost overnight.
Designer Ragnar Lárusson worked on several Seðlabanki commissions during this period. Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility was handling sovereign commissions across multiple continents simultaneously, and Icelandic orders were relatively modest in volume.