Catalog
10 Filira
| Issuer | City of Karlovac (Grad Karlovac) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Filira (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on white paper, framed by a beaded rectangular border. A central oval, edged by a dotted guilloche band, bears the city name KARLOVAC above the bold denomination numeral 10 flanked by the word FILIRA, while the abbreviated issuer title SLOB·I·KRALJ·GRAD runs along the top; the four corners carry interlaced knotwork cartouches each repeating the numeral 10. At the base of the central oval, a heraldic vignette presents the crowned coat of arms of Karlovac supported by two allegorical female figures amid reeds and waterfowl. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gradska blagajna u Karlovcu isplaćuje na ovu novčanicu u zakonitoj krunskoj vrijednosti filira 10 filira Ova novčanica izdana je dozvolom ministra financija od 24. listopada 1919. broj 3009 i vrijedi samo za područje grada Karlovca do konca lipnja 1920. Patvorenje se kazneno progoni. U Karlovcu, dne 15. studenoga 1919. Gradonačelnik: |
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Karlovac issued its own emergency scrip in 1919 because the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left provincial towns scrambling to plug gaps in small-denomination circulation. The new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had not yet stabilized its currency supply, and coins had largely vanished from everyday trade — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. Municipal authorities across the former Habsburg lands responded by printing their own fractional notes, and Karlovac was among them.
At 10 filira, this is about as low a denomination as emergency scrip gets — essentially a substitute for copper coinage.