Catalog
20 Filira second 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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brownish guilloche underprint on yellowish paper with black letterpress text. A vignette of the city coat of arms of Osijek is printed centrally in the underprint. The denomination '20 filira' is set in large bold type at centre, with the issuing authority title across the top and multi-line redemption and authorisation text below, including the date 'Osijek, 1. srpnja 1919.' and the manuscript signature of the Gradski načelnik (City Mayor) to the lower right. |
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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 31. prosinca 1919. Osijek, 1. srpnja 1919. Gradski načelnik: Odobreno po ministru finansija prema riješenju generalnog inspektorata od 5. svibnja 1919. br. 1106 time, da ovaj sitan papirni novac može opticati samo na području grada Osijeka. |
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Municipal emergency money issued by Osijek in 1919 falls into the broader wave of Croatian and Slavonian notgeld-style scrip that flooded the region as Austria-Hungary's monetary infrastructure collapsed and the newly forming Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had yet to establish coherent circulation policy. Individual cities issued their own fractional notes partly out of practical necessity — small change had effectively vanished — and partly as an assertion of local administrative continuity during the transition.
The "second issue" designation confirms at least one prior emission, suggesting demand exceeded the first print run or that the initial notes wore out quickly in dense everyday use at market level.