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6 Skilling - Christian VII Kongelige Grønlandske Handel
| Issuer | Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenlandic Trade) |
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| Year | 1804 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A5 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed black text on plain paper, enclosed within a ruled rectangular border frame. The royal cypher of Christian VII appears in the upper left corner, with the handwritten serial number positioned to the upper right. The central promissory text is set within a diamond-shaped typographic cartouche, with the denomination and issuing authority stated in period Danish script. |
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| Obverse lettering | 6 Skilling. Den Kongelige Grönlandſke Handel betaler denne Anviisning ved Handelsſtederne i Grönland med 6 Skill., ſkriver Sex Skilling Danſk Courant. Kiöbenhavn 1804. (Translation: 6 Skilling. The Royal Greenlandic Trading will pay this note at the trading posts in Greenland with 6 Skilling, written six Skilling Danish Courant. Copenhagen 1804) |
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The Kongelige Grønlandske Handel — the Royal Greenlandic Trade monopoly — issued these notes for internal use within Greenland's trading settlements, where they functioned as scrip rather than currency in any conventional sense. Colonists and Greenlandic workers could exchange them only within the company's own stores; they had no value outside that closed system. The monopoly held effective economic control over the island until well into the twentieth century.
Surviving examples from the 1804 series are genuinely rare. Greenland's climate was hard on paper, and the notes were never meant to leave the settlements.