10 Coroane Bukovina

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.