5 Kroner 1st version: Serial number in bottom

Features

Issuer	Denmark
Issuing bank	Nationalbank in Copenhagen (1818-1936) (Nationalbanken i Kjøbenhavn)
King	Christian IX (1863-1906)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	1899-1903
Value	5 Kroner (5 DKK)
Currency	Krone (1873-date)
Composition	Paper
Size	124 × 72 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Issued	30 December 1899
Demonetized	31 January 1920
Number	N# 352324
References	P# 1 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). , SIEG SD# 92 Jan Bendix, Flemming Lyngbeck Hansen; 2014. SIEGs Seddelkatalog Danmark 1695-2014. SIEG, Frederikssund, Denmark. , DOP# 98 Leo Hansen; 1983. Danmarks Officielle Pengesedler: 1713 - 1983 = Official Paper Money of the Kingdom of Denmark. Danish Numismatic Association, Copenhagen, Denmark. , DNF# 2.1.1 Møntkataloget/Seddelkataloget (https://montkataloget.dk/)

Series: Kronesedlerne 2nd issue

Obverse

Light blue and black print on white paper.
Background concisting of stylized 5 and "5 KRONER" written all over the note, together with Christian V's crown.
Value written out and the promis of exchange by law in the middle. Value in all four corners. Serial numbers in bottom of the note.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
5 5
FEM KRONER
VEXLES MED GULDMØNT
EFTER KONGELIGE RESULATION
AF 27. DECEMBER 1897.

NATIONALBANKEN I KJØBENHAVN

5 5

Translation:
Exhange with goldcoin
By royal decree
Of 27th of December 1897.
The Nationalbank in Copenhagen

Designer: Hans Tegner

Reverse

Stylized and intertwined 5s all over the background.

Script: Latin (cursive)

Lettering: C5

Designer: Hans Tegner

Watermark

NATIONALBANKEN/KJØBENHAVN
- Two dolphins facing each other

Signatures

Jacob Christian Jacobsen (JCJ)	Head of the banknote department
Jens Carl Lauritz Jensen (JCLJ)	Head of the banknote department

Comments

Variations:

The difference between this note and the 2nd version is primarily the serial number in the bottom of this note, vs. in the top of the 2nd version.

Signatures:
Out of the signatures on these notes, one is unchanged. The left one. The right signature is changing and handwritten.

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Date	Signatures				VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1899	JCJ
1900	JCJ
1902	JCLJ
1903	JCLJ

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