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60 Specie Skilling / 1/2 Speciedaler
| Issuer | Norges Bank |
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| Year | 1835 |
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| Currency | Speciedaler (1816-1875) |
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| Reverse description | Blank, without any printed design, lettering, or ornamental elements. |
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| Protection description | Impressed (embossed) dry stamps applied at the top and bottom margins of the obverse as an authentication measure. |
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Norges Bank was established in 1816 in Trondheim — not Christiania, which only became the operational center later — and the earliest decades of its note production were handled entirely in-house at its own printing works, an unusual arrangement for a young central bank. The 60 Skilling denomination reflects the old Norwegian specie system, where 120 skilling equaled one speciedaler, a reckoning that persisted until the decimal reform of 1875 swept it away.
The dry stamp was the bank's primary anti-counterfeiting measure at this date — an embossed blind seal pressed into the paper after printing. No watermark, no colored threads. By 1830s standards, modest protection.