Catalog
1 Krone (CF stamp)
| Issuer | Città di Fiume |
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| Year | overprint on 1916 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Corona (1919-1920) |
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| Obverse description | The face of the Austro-Hungarian 1 Korona note of 1916 (Hungary P-10) serves as the base, with the denomination inscribed in multiple languages within an ornate panel at left and the numeral '1' set within a finely engraved guilloche frame at right. A central oval vignette rests against an intricate underprint, flanked along the lower margin by bilingual anti-counterfeiting warnings in German and Hungarian. A handstamp overprint reading 'Città di Fiume' was applied over the Hungarian-language text, distinguishing this Fiume provisional issue from the unoverprinted base note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of the underlying Hungary P-10 note presents two female allegorical heads in intaglio at left and right, framing a central vignette incorporating the rod of Aesculapius, all set against a finely engraved guilloche underprint. Bilingual text in German and Hungarian is integrated within the design field, consistent with standard Austro-Hungarian imperial banknote production of the period. |
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Fiume's status after World War I was genuinely unresolved — neither Italy nor the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes could secure it diplomatically, and for a period the city functioned as a contested free entity. These Austro-Hungarian Kronen notes, overprinted with a "CF" (Città di Fiume) stamp, were a municipal improvisation to assert local administrative identity over currency already in circulation. The overprint itself is the entire point of the piece.
Forgeries and unauthorized stampings exist. Authenticated examples with a clean, well-centered impression command significantly more attention than smudged or partial strikes.