Catalog
10 Filira second issue
| Issuer | Općina Sl. i Kr. Grada Osijeka (Municipality of the Royal and Free City of Osijek) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 58 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on yellowish paper with a pale bluish underprint. The upper register bears the municipal header inscription, below which the denomination 'sa 10 filira' is set in large bold type. The lower portion carries a validating text referencing ministerial approval dated 5 May 1919 and restricting circulation to the city of Osijek, with a handwritten signature of the Gradski načelnik (City Mayor) at the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | OPĆINA SL. I KR. GRADA OSIJEKA. Ovo naputnicu izmjenjuju sve grad. blagajne sa 10 filira u zakonitoj vrijednosti do 31. prosinca 1919. Osijek, 1. srpnja 1919 Gradski načelnik: Odobreno po ministar. finansija prema rješenju gener. Inspektorata od 5. svibnja 1919 br. 1106 time, da ovaj vrstan papirnoi novac može optjecati samo na području grada Osijeka |
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Municipal emergency money issued by Osijek in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, when small coinage had effectively vanished from circulation across the collapsing Austro-Hungarian monetary zone. Towns throughout the former empire resorted to locally printed scrip — notgeld — to fill the vacuum before the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes could establish a functioning currency system. Osijek produced at least two distinct issues of these low-denomination filira notes, this being the second.
The printing was done locally, which accounts for the rudimentary execution common to the series.