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100 Kruna Croatian
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | This note is an Austro-Hungarian 100 Kronen issue of the Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Bank (Austria P#12) overprinted with a Croatian-language adhesive stamp reading 'KRALJEVSTVO SRBA HRVATA SLOVENACA' in Latin script, applied by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to validate the note for circulation. The underlying note displays a female portrait vignette at right within an oval frame, flanked by elaborate guilloche ornamental panels, with the denomination '100' repeated at upper corners and a coat-of-arms vignette at lower left. The text 'SZAZ KORONA' and 'OSZTRAK-MAGYAR BANK' appear in the central inscription area, dated BECS 1912 JANUAR 2-AN. |
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| Obverse lettering | KRALJEVSTVO SRBA HRVATA SLOVENACA SZAZ KORONA OSZTRAK-MAGYAR BANK BECS 1912 JANUAR 2-AN TORVENYES ERCZPENZТ A BANKJEGYEK UTANZASA A TORVENY SZERINT BUNTETTETIK |
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This note belongs to a transitional currency patchwork — in the months following unification in December 1918, the new Kingdom had no uniform currency and relied on overstamped Austro-Hungarian Kronen banknotes as a stopgap. The 100 Kruna notes were stamped with the kingdom's authority to distinguish them from unstamped Austro-Hungarian issues still circulating across the border, a necessary measure to prevent currency arbitrage between the successor states as the old empire's notes were being demonetized at varying rates.
The "A" suffix in the Pick designation distinguishes it from related overstamp varieties applied to notes of different print runs or stamp placements.