20 Rigsdaler / 20 Kroner - Christian V Thormøhlen notes

Features

Issuer	Norway
Issuing entity	The Treasury in Copenhagen
King	Christian V (1670-1699)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1695
Value	20 Rixdaler
Currency	Rigsdaler specie (1746-1814)
Composition	Paper (Wax seal on some notes.)
Size	210 × 165 mm
Shape	Rectangular
Demonetized	21 August 1696
Number	N# 376128
References	P# A2 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). , SIEG SD# 2 Jan Bendix, Flemming Lyngbeck Hansen; 2014. SIEGs Seddelkatalog Danmark 1695-2014. SIEG, Frederikssund, Denmark. , Rønning# S4 Bjørn R. Rønning; 1971. Norges mynter 1628-1873. Universitetsforlaget. , Skaare# 1004 Kolbjørn Skaare; 1995. Norges mynthistorie / Bind 2: Katalog- og registerbind: Mynter og utmyntning i 1000 år : Pengesedler i 300 år: Numismatikk i Norge. Bind 2. Universitetsforlaget. , NP# A2 Norske pengesedler (3 volumes). , DNF# 1.2 Møntkataloget/Seddelkataloget (https://montkataloget.dk/)

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Series: Thormøhlen notes

Obverse

4 red wax seals, one in the top left, with Christian V and three in the bottom, from left to right: Jørgen Thormøler, Jacob Sørensen (interest writer) and Lauritz Mauritzen Trap (interest writer). Promissory text in the middle, monogram in the top right of the text. Signatures in bottom and to the right of the text.

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive), Latin (Fraktur blackletter)

Lettering:
CVC
Som Hans Kongl. Majeſt. den 22
Junii indebærende Aar 1695/ sin
ailernaadigſte Forordning haver ladet
udgaae / angaaende diſſe Seddeler /
ſom i ſteden for bare Penge Norden =
sields udi Hans Kongelige Majeſtats
Rige Norge ſkal gielde/ Saa er denne
Seddel efter ſamme Forordnings ind =
hold vorden authoriſeret, for Værdie
af thlufue === Rixdaler/Croner.
Kiøbenhafn den 10 July === 1695

Reverse

Value and control number

Script: Latin (cursive)

Comments

These notes are the only banknotes issued under Danish rule over Norway, for Norway only. At the time before and after, Danish notes were legal tender in Norway too. These notes were circulating in Norway only.

The trader and shipowner Jørgen Thormøhlen was a good friend of Christian V, he needed money and got an interest free loan by the king, which he later was unable to pay back.

All notes bear the same text, signatures and seals. The value and control numbers are handwritten. The wax seals are with a portrait of Christian V in the top and the three in the bottom, from left to right: Jørgen Thormøler. Jacob Sørensen (interest writer) and Lauritz Mauritzen Trap (interest writer).
The four wax seals were removed when a note was issued so avoid counterfit, so the seal matched the notes going back to the Treasury. Under each seal it was also signed by the respectiv seal owner.

Since some notes had their seals torn of and some was never issued they exist with and without the seals.

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Date	No. printed	VF
Undetermined
1695-Jul-10	500		Issued; without wax seal on
1695-Jul-10		$ 3300	Unissued; with wax seal still on; numbers printed included above

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Version	Grade	Sold price
	Oslo Myntgalleri Auctions 10-11 Lot 1001	26 Nov 2016	1695-Jul-10 – Unissued; with wax seal still on; numbers printed included above	VF	USD 1108.60 (NOK 10 500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Oslo Myntgalleri Auction 9 Lot 1	7 May 2016	1695-Jul-10 – Unissued; with wax seal still on; numbers printed included above	VF	USD 5806.96 (NOK 55 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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