Catalog
50 Helera
| Issuer | Opština Glavnog Grada Sarajeva (Municipality of the City of Sarajevo) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1919 |
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| Obverse lettering | OPŠTINA GLAV. GRADA SARAJEVA. Ovu naputnicu izmjenjuju sve gradske blagajne sa 50 helera u zakonitoj vrijednosti do 31. decembra 1919. Sarajevo, 20. sept. 1919. Predsjednik opštine: Odobreno po ministarstvu finansija naredbom od 9. juta 1919. I. br. 1796 time, da ovaj sitni papirni novac može cirkulirati samo u području grada Sarajeva |
| Reverse description | Light brown guilloche underprint on yellowish paper with dark brown Cyrillic letterpress text, mirroring the layout of the obverse. The heading 'ОПШТИНА ГЛАВ. ГРАДА САРАЈЕВА.' appears at top, with the denomination 'са 50 хелера' in large bold type at centre. The validity and issue dates, the title 'Предсједник општини:', and a facsimile signature are present, followed by the same Ministry of Finance authorization text in small Cyrillic type at the foot. |
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Sarajevo's municipal government issued these small-denomination emergency notes in 1919 to address a genuine coin shortage in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of Austro-Hungarian administration. The transition to the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes left provincial cities scrambling — central monetary authority was slow to supply adequate coinage, and local authorities across the former Habsburg territories printed their own stopgaps. Sarajevo was among several Bosnian municipalities to do so.
Printed locally under obviously constrained conditions, the production quality reflects the scarcity of the moment rather than any deliberate simplicity.