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| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | German-language side of the overprinted Austro-Hungarian 10 Kronen note (Austria P#19), bearing a black circular handstamp reading 'Ministarstvo Financija' applied by the Yugoslav Ministry of Finance to validate the note for circulation. The underlying note carries the 'TIZ KORONA' and 'OSZTRÁK MAGYAR BANK' inscriptions, with a female portrait vignette at right and the Hungarian royal coat of arms at left. |
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| Obverse lettering | MINISTARSTVO FINANCIJA |
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Yugoslavia's first domestic paper money issue came almost immediately after the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was proclaimed in December 1918. The Ministry of Finance, not a central bank — none yet existed — issued these notes as a stopgap while the new state scrambled to establish monetary unity across territories that had previously used Austrian crowns, Serbian dinars, Montenegrin perpers, and Bulgarian leva simultaneously.
Josef Pfeiffer was a Vienna-based designer, which tells you something about how quickly the new state had to work — there was no time to develop an entirely fresh domestic printing infrastructure.