10 Fileri Arad

Obverse description	Plain buff-yellow paper note with a fine guilloche underprint across the entire field. The issuer's name "ORAȘUL ARAD." appears in bold letterpress at the top, below which the title "Bilet de Cassă" is printed in large gothic-style type. The denomination numeral "10" is set within a circular guilloche vignette at centre, flanked by "fil." on either side, with the redemption clause and the issuing authority "Consiliul comunal" printed in smaller text below.
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Reverse lettering	1920 fil. 10 fil. Falsificătorii acestui bilet vor fi urmăriți, ca falsificători de bani legali, conform codului penal.
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Comments	Arad's municipal emergency notes of 1920 fill a narrow but genuinely awkward gap in Romanian monetary history. The city had passed from Hungarian to Romanian administration following the 1918 armistice, and the transition left local commerce in a currency no-man's-land — Hungarian korona still circulating, Romanian leu not yet fully penetrating the region, and small change effectively nonexistent. Municipal authorities across Transylvania and the Banat issued their own fractional notes as a stopgap, Arad among them. The filér denomination is a telling detail: a Hungarian subunit, still in use by name even under new Romanian administration.