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6 Rigsbankskilling - Frederick VI Handelsstederne i Grønland
| Uitgever | Handelsstederne i Grønland (Royal Greenland Trade Department) |
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| Jaar | 1819 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Typeset letterpress note in black on white paper. A rectangular cartouche at the top bears the denomination in bold numerals and abbreviated text. Below, the promissory body text is set in period Danish typography. To the left margin appears the royal cypher of Frederik VI, and to the right a vignette of the crowned Greenlandic polar bear, serving as the territorial emblem of the issuing authority. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 6 Rb.Skl. Denne Anviisning gielder for Sex Rigsbank Skilling ved Handelsſtederne i Grönland. Kiöbenhavn, 1819 (Translation: 6 Rigsbankskilling This note is valid for six Rigsbankskilling at the Trading Posts in Greenland. Copenhagen, 1819) |
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The Royal Greenland Trade Department held a strict monopoly over all commerce in Greenland, and these notes circulated exclusively within that closed system — they were never legal tender outside it. Issued in 1819 under Frederick VI, they functioned more as trade tokens within a colonial barter economy than as conventional banknotes, redeemable only at the Department's own trading posts.
The rigsbankskilling denomination places this issue in the years following Denmark's 1813 state bankruptcy, when the old riksdaler system was being dismantled and replaced. Currency reform was still unsettled at the point of printing.