Catalog
50 Kruna
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Austro-Hungarian 50 Kronen note (Österreichisch-Ungarische Bank, dated 2 January 1914) overprinted for use in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The left panel bears a trilingual adhesive stamp in German, Cyrillic, and Latin script with the royal Serbian eagle device, along with a circular violet ink cancellation stamp reading 'Kraljevstvo Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca.' The central vignette retains the original female portrait in an oval medallion, flanked by ornamental guilloche panels and the denomination numeral '50' at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | KRALJEVSTVO SRBA, HRVATA I SLOVENACA ПЕДЕСЕТ КРУНА PEDESET KRUNA FÜNFZIG KRONEN PADESAT KORUN PATDESIT KRON CINQUANTA CORONE CINCIZECI CORDANE DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK GOUVERNEUR GENERALRAT GENERALSEKRETÄR |
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Pick 8B is a provisional issue, not an original design. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — proclaimed in December 1918 — had no printing infrastructure of its own yet, so it overstamped existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes to assert monetary control over the newly unified territory. The overstamp converted enemy-currency stock into ostensibly legitimate tender almost overnight.
The "B" suffix distinguishes this from Pick 8A by the stamp placement or color variant — a detail that matters more to completists than the casual buyer, but separates meaningfully different print runs in auction records.
Forgeries of the overstamp itself were circulating within months of issue.