Catalog
20 Filira first issue
| Issuer | Općina Sl. i Kr. Grada Osijeka (Municipality of the Royal and Free City of Osijek) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 20 Filira (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | OPĆINA SL. I KR. GRADA OSIJEKA. Ovu naputnicu izmjenjuju sve gradske blagajne sa 20 filira u zakonitoj vrijednosti do 10. kolovoza 1919. Osijek, 18. lipnja 1919. Gradski načelnik Odobreno po ministru finansija prema rješenju generalnog inspektorata od 5. svibnja 1919. br. 1106 time, da ovaj sitan papirni novac može opticati samo na području grada Osijeka. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse of yellowish-cream paper stock, showing only the natural texture of the paper with faint show-through of the orange underprint from the obverse. |
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Osijek's municipal emergency notes of 1919 are among the more administratively interesting pieces of Yugoslav-era local paper. Following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the region briefly sat in a political vacuum — the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had not yet established a functioning monetary supply infrastructure at the local level, forcing Slavonian municipalities to print their own fractional currency to handle day-to-day transactions.
The Filira denomination itself is a Croatian adaptation of "Heller," the Austro-Hungarian subunit, still in common use by a population that had spent decades under Habsburg administration.