Catalog
50 Kruna
| Issuer | Ministarstvo Financija (Ministry of Finance), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Kruna (1919) |
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| Obverse description | Austro-Hungarian 50 Kronen note (Austria P#15) overstamped for Yugoslav circulation with a black circular handstamp reading 'Ministarstvo Financija' applied over the Austrian imperial eagle vignette on the right (German-language) side of the note. The central vignette portrays a young woman in three-quarter view within an oval frame, flanked by ornate guilloche panels. The denomination 'ÖTVEN KORONA' is inscribed in large letterpress below, with 'OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK' and three facsimile signatures of senior bank officials at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | ÖTVEN KORONA AZ OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYÉRT BARKI KÍVÁNSÁGÁRA AZONNAL FIZET BÉCSI ÉS BUDAPESTI FŐINTÉZETEINÉL TÖRVÉNYES ÉRCPÉNZT. Bécs, 1914 január 2án OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK FŐTANÁCSOS KORMÁNYZÓ VEZÉRTITKAR Ministarstvo Financija |
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was barely months old when this note was authorized — the state declared in December 1918, and the Ministry of Finance was issuing paper currency before any central bank infrastructure existed. These early Ministry notes were a stopgap, filling the vacuum left by the collapse of Austro-Hungarian and Serbian wartime monetary systems simultaneously operating across the new kingdom's territory.
The 1919 issues circulated alongside overstamped Austro-Hungarian kronen, creating a chaotic dual-currency environment that persisted until the dinar reforms of the early 1920s. P#3 is the highest denomination in this first Ministry series.