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1 Perper
| Issuer | Glavna Državna Blagajna (Main State Treasury) of Montenegro |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | КРАЉЕВИНА ЦРНАГОРА Главна Државна Благајна Аодашује доносиоцу ове упутнице Један Перпер ЈЕДАН ПЕРПЕР Председник Главне Државне Knjиговoђe Министар финансија Вриједи за годину дана. Цетиње, 25 јула 1914. |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue on plain paper, the reverse carries a dense microtext underprint of repeating КРАЉЕВИНА ЦРНАГОРА text lines covering the entire field. The large bold Cyrillic inscription КРАЉЕВИНА ЦРНАГОРА appears at top centre, withЈЕДАН ПЕРПЕР below in large display type. A central text block references the law of 25 July 1914 authorising the issue, and a warning clause against forgery citing articles of the criminal code is printed in smaller text at the foot. Numeral 1 appears in each corner. |
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Montenegro printed its own emergency currency at Cetinje in 1914 — a rare case of a small Balkan state operating a functioning domestic press under wartime pressure. The Austro-Hungarian invasion later that year disrupted everything; most of these notes circulated hard and briefly before the occupation effectively ended Montenegrin monetary autonomy in early 1916.
The only security feature is an official stamp, which made forgery relatively straightforward. Surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than the catalog frequency suggests.