12 Skilling Courant / ⅛ Rigsdaler Colonien Julianehaab i Grønland
Features
| Issuer |
Greenland
(Denmark)  |
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | The Royal Greenlandic Trading |
| King |
Christian VII (1766-1808)
|
| Type | Local banknotes |
| Year | 1803 |
| Value | 12 Skilling (⅛) |
| Currency | Rigsdaler courant (1803-1873) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 147 × 96 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Demonetized | 1819 |
| Number | N# 363625 |
| References | P# A1 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). Jan Bendix, Flemming Lyngbeck Hansen; 2014. SIEGs Seddelkatalog Danmark 1695-2014. SIEG, Frederikssund, Denmark. |
Series: Colonien Julianehaab i Grønland
Obverse
A frame with issuing authority to the left and in the top right corner another frame small with value.
Rest of the frame filled out with promissory text and signature.
Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive), Latin (Fraktur blackletter)
Lettering:
Kongelige Grönlandske Handel
Tolv Skilling
danſk Courant
Denne Anviisning gielder ved Colonien Julianehaab i
Grønland for 1/8 Rdlr. eller 12 Skilling danſk C.
Kiøbenhavn, 1803.
Den adminiſtrerende Direction for den
Kongl. Grønlandſke handel
Translation:
Royal Greenlandic Trading
12 Skilling Danish Courant
This note is valid at the Colony of Julianehaab in Greenland for 1/8 of a Rigsdaler or 12 Skilling Courant. Copenhagen, 1803
The administrating direction for the Royal Greenlandic Trading
Reverse
Blank.
Comments
These notes where cut out from a large sheet and therefore variy in size.
The frame is 140*88.
Julianehaab (today called Qaqortoq) was an important trade hub in the south of Greenland. It was important for the lokal fat and skin trade, the main income for the colony at the time.
The frame is 140*88.
Julianehaab (today called Qaqortoq) was an important trade hub in the south of Greenland. It was important for the lokal fat and skin trade, the main income for the colony at the time.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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