Vorderseite: Ein Meerstrandläufer (Calidris maritima) mit einer Schar Vögel im Hintergrund.
Rückseite: Blick auf die Insel Sandoy. Dieses Motiv wie auch das Hintergundmotiv auf der Vorderseite basieren auf Aquarellen des färöischen Malers Zacharias Heinesen.

Front side: A purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) and a flock of birds in the background.
Back side: View of the island of Sandoy. This motif and the background on the front are based on watercolor paintings by the local painter Zacharias Heinesen.

B216a

Dated 2005.
Signatures of (Minister of Finance) Bárður Nielsen and (High Commissioner) Birgit Kleis. Ram's head and electrotype consecration cross as watermark. Solid security thread. Additional windowed security thread with demetalized text at right on the front side. Omron ringsElement to recognize banknotes by scanners, printers and copy machines. on both sides. Holographic patch at upper left on the front side. One black 6-character serial number at upper left on front, having a single letter suffix and digits of the same size. Additional black 6-character alphanumerical sequence number at lower left on the front side encoding series, year of issue and sheet position. Printed by Danmarks Nationalbank Banknote Printing Works.

Remarks

Introduced on 15. September 2005. This note was elected 'Banknote of the year 2005'.
The 6-character alphanumeric sequence number at lower left encodes the series, the year of issue and the sheet position of the note. For example the note with the sequence number B0042J belongs to the series B0, was issued in 2004 with sheet position 2J.

The bold text at the beginning of the description of every variety indicates those elements, which are necessary to identify the correct variety (if any) without any doubt. The date or the remark Not dated is always given.
[Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (P-28); Banknote Book (B216)]