5000 Krónur No top and bottom border

The "no top and bottom border" designation refers to a specific printing variant within the P#60 series — the borderless edge treatment was a deliberate design choice by Kristín Þórkelsdóttir and Stephen Alan Fairbairn, and it remains one of the more visually distinctive elements of Iceland's modern note designs. De La Rue produced the series across a remarkably long run, with the same basic design circulating from 2001 through the 2019 withdrawal, long outlasting the 2008 financial crisis that effectively bankrupted the Icelandic state and forced emergency IMF intervention.

Iceland's króna collapsed so severely in 2008 that the 5000 denomination, once substantial, lost much of its practical weight almost overnight.