Catalog
25 Para
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbia, Postal Administration |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 п. СРБИЈА КРАЉ ПЕТАР НА БОЈИШТУ 1914. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is left entirely unprinted, consisting of plain white ungummed paper with no design, text, or security elements. |
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Serbia's Postal Administration stepped in as an emergency currency issuer in 1915 as the country's banking infrastructure collapsed under the combined pressure of the Austro-Hungarian invasion and the devastating typhus epidemic that had already killed tens of thousands earlier that year. These postal notes — sitnice, as the small-denomination fractional pieces were called — were a stopgap measure, never intended as a lasting monetary instrument.
The Kingdom would cease to exist as a functioning state within months of this note's issue, following the catastrophic autumn retreat through Albania. Most of these pieces were lost to that collapse rather than redeemed.