Catalog
1/2 Lire
| Issuer | Hranilnica Ljubljanske Pokrajine (Sparkasse der Provinz Laibach) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENT 1/2 Izdano na osnovi odloka Šefa pokrajinske uprave v Ljubljani z dne 28. XI. 1944, VII. št. S946/1. HRANILNICA LJUBLJANSKE POKRAJINE Predsednik: Glavni ravnatelj: Ponarejanje je kaznivo po zakonu. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same dark blue-grey ink and mirrors the obverse layout, with the left panel bearing an identical stamp-style vignette of the Slovenian peasant woman in traditional folk dress set within an ornate scroll-and-chain border, and the denomination fraction '1/2' dominating the upper right of the text panel. The issuing authority is here rendered in German as 'SPARKASSE DER PROVINZ LAIBACH', with the authorizing decree reference dated 28. XI. 1944 and the same two manuscript signatures above the titles 'Vorsitzender' and 'Generaldirektor'. The anti-counterfeiting warning appears in German at the foot of the note. |
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Hranilnica Ljubljanske Pokrajine — the savings bank of the Italian-administered Province of Ljubljana — issued this fractional note during the German occupation period following Italy's September 1943 armistice. The Province of Ljubljana had been an Italian creation since 1941; after the Italian collapse, German forces assumed control, and the bank continued operating under the new occupiers. Small-denomination emergency scrip of this kind filled the gap left by acute coin shortages, a chronic problem across occupied Europe by 1944.
Janez Trpin's involvement is notable — a Slovenian designer working under occupation constraints, producing currency for an authority that had replaced another foreign one barely months earlier.