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5 Perpera
| Issuer | Glavna Državna Blagajna (Main State Treasury) of Montenegro |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Large circular violet official government stamp applied over the signature area on both obverse and reverse as an authentication control. |
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Montenegro printed its own currency at Cetinje under genuinely difficult conditions — the kingdom lacked a central bank entirely, and the Glavna Državna Blagajna functioned as both treasury and de facto bank of issue. This note appeared in 1914, the same year Montenegro mobilized against Austria-Hungary, and the wartime circumstances show: domestic printing meant no access to the intaglio presses or security paper that neighboring states took for granted.
The official stamp is the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — a blunt solution, but the only practical one available locally. Notes from this series are frequently found with uneven stamping or misaligned impressions, which are production features, not damage.