Catalog
5000 Krónur Seðlabanki Íslands
| Issuer | Seðlabanki Íslands (Central Bank of Iceland) |
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| Year | 1971-1980 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1982 |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio print on multicolour underprint. A dramatic landscape vignette occupies the full width of the note, presenting a panoramic view of Dettifoss waterfall with its broad cataract cascading into a rocky gorge; a solitary figure stands on the basalt foreground rocks in the lower right, conveying the immense scale of Europe's most powerful waterfall. The denomination 5000 appears in numerals at upper left and lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed the entire P#47 series at their New Malden works under contract to Seðlabanki Íslands, which had taken over note-issuing authority from Landsbanki Íslands in 1961. The 5000 króna denomination was the highest face value in circulation during the 1970s, a period when Iceland was running some of the worst inflation rates in Western Europe — consumer prices roughly tripled between 1975 and 1980 alone.
Designer Halldór Pétursson worked on several denominations in this series. The watermark remains the sole security feature, modest even by the standards of the period.