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1000 Kruna Croatian
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Austro-Hungarian 1000 Korona note (Hungarian-language side) serving as the base for a provisional revalidation overprint: a red handstamp reading KRALJEVSTVO SRBA HRVATA SLOVENACA applied diagonally at right, authenticating the note for circulation within the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The underlying note carries an oval portrait vignette of a young woman at right, set within elaborate guilloche borders, with the denomination EZER KORONA in large letterpress text at centre and the Hungarian arms at upper centre. Serial number and issuer text of the Osztrák-Magyar Bank appear in the upper field. |
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| Obverse lettering | KRALJEVSTVO SRBA HRVATA SLOVENACA EZER KORONA AZ OSZTRAK-MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYEIT BARKI KIVANSAGARA AZ ARAT FIZETI BECSI ES BUDAPESTI FOINTEZETEINEL OSZTRAK-MAGYAR BANK TÖRVÉNYES ÉRCZPÉNZ BECS 1902. JANUAR 2. |
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This note belongs to the chaotic first year of the new Kingdom, when the freshly unified South Slav state was still assembling its monetary infrastructure from the wreckage of four distinct wartime currencies. Rather than print new notes immediately, the government overprinted existing Austro-Hungarian Kronen stock — the 1919 Yugoslav overprint series was a stopgap measure, not a planned currency rollout.
The P#10A designation distinguishes it from closely related varieties by signature combination. High-denomination overprinted notes of this series were subject to heavy scrutiny at exchange points, as forgeries and unofficially stamped Austro-Hungarian notes circulated widely in the immediate postwar period.