Catalog
1 Kuna
| Issuer | Gradska Općina (City Municipality of Zagreb) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| In circulation to | 15 November 1942 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in two colours — a brown interlaced scroll and chain border matching the obverse frame, with the denomination '1 kuna' in cursive script at each corner. The central vignette, rendered in olive-green, presents a panoramic cityscape of Zagreb's Zrinjevac square and lower town, with the Zagreb coat of arms at top centre. A rectangular panel at the bottom carries the anti-counterfeiting legend in bold capitals, with the printer's imprint 'Rozankowski d.d.' visible at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 KUNA KRIVOTVORENJE KAŽNJAVA SE PO ZAKONU (Translation: 1 kuna Counterfeiting is punished by law) |
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Zagreb's city government issued these small-denomination kuna notes in 1942 as a municipal emergency currency — the newly established Independent State of Croatia (NDH) had introduced the kuna that same year, but fractional coinage was in desperately short supply almost immediately. The city stepped in to fill the gap rather than wait for the central authorities.
Danimir Widmayer was one of the more active Croatian graphic designers working under NDH patronage. The notes were printed by Hrvatska državna tiskara, the state printing house established by the NDH regime to handle official document production domestically rather than relying on foreign printers.