Catalog
4000 Kruna overprint on 1000 Dinara
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Engraver(s) | Guillaume-Alphonse Harang (Guillaume Cabasson) |
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| Obverse lettering | МИНИСТАРСТВО ФИНАНСИЈА КРАЉЕВСТВА СРБА ХРВАТА И СЛОВЕНАЦА MINISTERSTVO FINANCIJA KRALJEVSTVA SRBA, HRVATA I SLOVENACA MINISTERSTVO FINANC KRALJEVSTVA SRBOV, HRVATOV IN SLOVENCEV ХИЉАДА ДИНАРА HILJADA DINARA TISOC DINARA 1000 4000 KRUNA - КРУНА - KRON. МИНИСТАР ФИНАНСИЈА |
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When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbed the former Austro-Hungarian territories in 1918, it inherited a population accustomed to paying in Kruna — not Dinara. Rather than wait for freshly printed notes, the Ministry of Finance overstamped existing 1000 Dinara stock with a 4000 Kruna equivalence, reflecting the exchange rate set to bring the two currency zones into rough parity.
The underlying note had been engraved by Guillaume-Alphonse Harang, who worked under the pseudonym Cabasson — one of the Banque de France's most accomplished intaglio engravers of the period. The overprint sits awkwardly atop his work, which is precisely the point: this is a fiscal improvisation, not a designed note.