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10 Para
| Issuer | Belgrade Municipality (Београдска Општина) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on white paper, the face carries the issuer title БЕОГРАДСКА ОПШТИНА in large letters across the top within a decorative border of folk-art geometric and cross motifs. A central text panel, framed by a ruled rectangle with an ornate initial Б at upper left, bears the redemption pledge in Cyrillic script, flanked by two circular denomination cartouches reading 10 ПАРА / PARA at left and right. Two manuscript signatures appear below the text panel under the printed designations БЛАГАЈНИК (Treasurer) and ПРЕДСЕДНИК (President), with the place and date БЕОГРАД ЈУНА 1920 and the Serbian royal coat of arms centred at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПАРА 10 PARA 10 1920 БЕОГРАДСКА ОПШТИНА |
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Belgrade Municipality issued small-denomination emergency notes in 1920 to address a severe shortage of fractional coinage that plagued Yugoslavia in the immediate postwar period. The new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had not yet resolved the competing currencies circulating across its newly assembled territories, and local authorities across the country stepped in with their own provisional scrip. Belgrade's issues were among the more administratively organized of these, backed by the municipality rather than a private merchant or cooperative.
The 10 Para denomination is the lowest in the Belgrade series, and high-circulation attrition means intact examples are harder to locate than their modest face value suggests.