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B665k - P36c - 10 kroner - Date: 1983 (demonetized 13.07.1999)- Grade: Unc - Signature: 12 (Wold/Sagård) - Description: Colour: Blue. Front: Norwegian text; explorer Fridjof Nansen; crowned shield coat of arms with lion rampant. - Back: Norwegian text; anchors; boat and cranes; Nils Flakstad s sculpture Fiskeren of a fisherman with nets; two flying seagull birds. - No security thread. - Watermark: 10. - Printer: (Norges Bank s Printing Works).- Size: 124 x 66 mm. - Material: Paper.
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Store Frøen (Oslo), 10 October 1861 - Lysaker (near Oslo), 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen studied biology at the University of Oslo, specializing in zoology. He became curator of the Bergen Museum. Nansen was professor of zoology and oceanography at the University of Oslo. He later became Norway's ambassador to London (1906-1908).
