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20 Coroane Transilvania (Siebenbürgen) and Banat
| Issuer | Romania |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 20 Coroane |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 20 ROMANIA TIMBRU SPECIAL AZ OSZTRAK MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYERT BARKI KIVANSAGARA AZONNAL FIZET BECSI BUDAPESTI FOINTEZETEINEL HUSZ KORONA TORVENYES ERCZPENZT BECS 1913 JANUAR 2AN OSZTRAK MAGYAR BANK FOTANACSOS KORMANYZO VEZERTITKAR A BANKJEGYEK UTANZASA A TORVENY SZERINT BUNTETTIK |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents the German-language face of the note in blue and lilac tones, with a large portrait of a young woman in Art Nouveau style occupying the left half within a circular guilloche frame. At upper right, the Austrian imperial double-headed eagle appears as a vignette. The central text panel carries the denomination ZWANZIG KRONEN in large letterpress, flanked above and below by the bank title and the denomination rendered in eight languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with three facsimile signature lines below. |
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After Romanian forces occupied Transylvania and the Banat following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the new administration faced an immediate practical problem: the circulating Austro-Hungarian crown notes had to be brought under Romanian control without a fully established replacement currency. The solution was crude and fast — existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes were overstamped with a Romanian authority stamp, effectively conscripting enemy paper into local use. These overstamped crowns circulated alongside Romanian lei in a monetary zone that was, for several years, genuinely chaotic.
The P#R15 designation signals its provisional status — it falls outside the main Pick sequence, classified separately as a regional emergency issue rather than a nationally issued Romanian banknote.