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1 Perper Austro-Hungarian Occupation in WWI - Army Administration
| Issuer | K.u.K. Militärgeneralgouvernement in Montenegro (Imperial and Royal Military General-Governorate in Montenegro) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents parallel bilingual text in Serbian (Cyrillic or Latin script) and Albanian, setting out the conditions under which this note may be exchanged and the applicable conversion rate relative to existing Montenegrin state treasury warrants. The text references specific ordinances of the Supreme Military Commander and specifies the equivalency of 50 звечећих пара or 50 Heller, with the date and place of issue, Cetinje, 5 July 1917, and the facsimile signature of the Imperial and Royal Military General-Governor appearing at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Montenegro fell to Austro-Hungarian forces in January 1916 after a brief campaign, and the K.u.K. Militärgeneralgouvernement administered the occupied territory with its own parallel currency. The Perper had been the monetary unit of the independent Kingdom of Montenegro since 1906, and the occupying authority retained the denomination rather than imposing the Krone outright — a calculated concession to local familiarity that made compliance easier to enforce.
The 1 Perper is the lowest value in the 1917 Military General-Governorate issue, and low-denomination occupation notes from minor theaters of WWI rarely survived in any quantity. Troops and civilians alike used them hard, and postwar redemption programs had little incentive to preserve them.