5 Kroner Portrait and Landscape

Features

Obverse

Portrait of Bertil Thorvaldsen at left.
Statue of The Three Graces at right

Lettering:
DANMARK
5
FEM KRONER
UDSTEDT I HENHOLD TIL LOV AF 7. APRIL 1936

Reverse

Vor Frue Kirke in Kalundborg

Watermark

Light 5's and dark dots.
SD#128 the 5 is 11 mm tall.
SD#129 the 5 is 13 mm tall.

Comments

Issued: 14th oct. 1952
Withdrawn from: 14th feb. 1962

The issuing year isn't printet on this note but the second and third cifre in the Prefix gives the two last digits of the year (19)60.
In Prefix A0 and  A1 there is no dot after 7 in the text. In Prefix A2 this fault is changed to the correct with a dot after 7. Prefix A2 exist with both types. From Prefix A3 and on, they all are with dot after 7.
The note was nicknamed "Fem Spir" after the Church's five towers.
The right signature on this banknote is always: Riim "Chef for Seddelfaget"(Head of Notes). The left signature is from one of the 3 Directors for Danmarks Nationalbank.

The difference between SIEG SD#128 and SIEG SD#129 is the hight of the Watermak until Prefix A9 (19)55 the watermark is 11mm high (SIEG SD#128) and from Prefix B0 (19)55 the watermark is 13 mm tall (SIEG SD#129).


Replacement Notes
If a Note didn’t meet the quality standards it was replaced. These  Replacement Notes was marked with suffix 0K if it was a single note, and 0J if it was a hole sheet of Notes that was replaced.
For this 5 Kroner Note all replacement Notes issued in the period 1951-59 hold the year (19)50 instead of  the actual year.

See also

• Religious building

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