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20 Helera
| Issuer | Municipality of Sarajevo (Opština Glav. Grada Sarajeva) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 20 Helera (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Latin-script text on yellowish paper with a light blue-violet guilloche underprint forming a decorative geometric border. The issuer's name appears at the top in bold uppercase letterpress, followed by the denomination 'sa 20 helera' in large bold type at centre. Below, the date 'Sarajevo, 20. sept. 1919' and the title 'Predsjednik opštine' appear alongside a manuscript signature, with an authorisation text in italic script occupying the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Cyrillic-script text on yellowish paper with an identical light blue-violet guilloche underprint and geometric decorative border as the obverse. The issuer's name is printed at top in bold Cyrillic uppercase, with the denomination 'са 20 хелера' in large bold type at centre. The date 'Сарајево, 20. септ. 1919' and the title 'Предсједник општини' are followed by a manuscript signature, with an authorisation text in Cyrillic italic script in the lower portion. |
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Sarajevo's municipal emergency notes of 1919 belong to a specific and chaotic window: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had just been proclaimed, but no unified currency had been established, and the transition away from Austro-Hungarian Kronen left local economies scrambling. Municipalities across the former imperial territories issued their own notgeld-style scrip to fill the void — Sarajevo among them.
Locally printed on whatever stock was available, these small-denomination pieces show it. Paper quality varies significantly across surviving examples, a direct consequence of wartime and immediate postwar supply shortages in Bosnia.