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80 Kruna overprint on 20 Dinara
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 80 Kruna |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 ДИНАРА 20 DINARA МИНИСТАРСТВО ФИНАНСИЈА КРАЉЕВСТВА СРБА ХРВАТА И СЛОВЕНАЦА MINISTARSTVO FINANSIJA KRALJEVSTVA SRBA HRVATA I SLOVENACA MINISTRSTVO ZA FINANCE KRALJESTVA SRBOV HRVATOV IN SLOVENCEV БЕОГРАД 1 ФЕБРУАРА 1919 МИНИСТАР ФИНАНСИЈА КРУНА 80 KRUNA KRON M.Cl. Crnčić fec. (Translation: 20 DINARS in all four corners MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES (in three languages) BELGRADE, 1 FEBRUARY 1919 MINISTER OF FINANCE red overprint: KRUNA 80 KRUNA KRON) |
| Reverse description | Blue and pink bicolour design centred on a radiating vignette of a vast wheat field receding to the horizon, with sheaves of wheat flanking both sides and small figures of women harvesting in the lower corners. The large numeral "20" is printed centrally in dark blue over a warm pink guilloche underprint, with "DINARS" arching above. A red letterpress overprint "КРУНА 80 KRUNA KRON" is applied across the lower centre, and serial numbers appear at lower left and lower right. |
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When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes absorbed the former Habsburg territories in 1918, it inherited a population accustomed to the Austro-Hungarian Kuna system rather than the Serbian Dinar. This overprint was a direct administrative response: existing 20 Dinara notes were run back through the Croatian state printer in Zagreb and stamped with a value of 80 Kruna, reflecting the official exchange rate set during monetary unification. The same press that had been producing paper for a dissolved empire was now rationalizing currency for a state that had existed for weeks.
Menci Clement Crnčić, primarily known as a painter and graphic artist, designed the underlying note — an unusual credit for someone outside the conventional banknote trade.