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10 Coroane Bukovina
| Issuer | Romania (Overprint on Austro-Hungarian Bank note) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 150 x 80 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large intaglio vignette of a young woman's portrait at right, rendered in fine engraved detail against a green guilloche underprint. At left, the Hungarian coat of arms appears within an ornate frame alongside the denomination panels reading TIZ KORONA in large letterpress. The central text block carries the Hungarian-language payment obligation of the Austro-Hungarian Bank, with the date BÉCS 1915 JANUÁR 2-ÁN and facsimile signatures of the Főtanácsos, Kormányzó, and Vezértitkár below. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 10 TIZ KORONA AZ OSZTRAK MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYERT BARKI KIVANSAGARA AZONNAL FIZET BECSI ES BUDAPESTI FOINTEZETEINEL TIZ KORONA TORVENYES ERCZPENZT BECS 1915 JANUAR 2AN OSZTRAK MAGYAR BANK FOTANACSOS KORMANYZO VEZERTITKAR A BANKJEGYEK UTANZASA A TORVENY SZERINT BUNTETTIK 10 KORONA |
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After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Romania moved quickly to assert monetary control over newly acquired Bukovina. Rather than printing entirely new currency, Romanian authorities overprinted existing Austro-Hungarian Kronen notes — a practical expedient that also served to distinguish circulating currency from notes flooding in from other successor states, which were being used to drain goods from border regions before exchange rates could be fixed.
The P#R2 designation places this in the early Romanian regional overprint series, separate from the main Pick catalog — a classification that reflects just how provisional the whole arrangement was.