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Bread Coupon Sloboda, Osijek
| Issuer | »Sloboda« DD Tvornica keksa i kruha, Osijek |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-yellow coupon with a red serial number at top and black letterpress text identifying the issuer and entitlement in the centre. A circular official stamp in blue ink bearing the Croatian coat of arms is applied across the lower portion, with the initials MP below. |
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| Obverse lettering | № 043166 »SLOBODA« DD Tvornica keksa i kruha, Osijek BON ZA 1 KOM KRUHA MP |
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»Sloboda« (Freedom) was a biscuit and bread factory operating in Osijek, the principal commercial city of Slavonia. Like many private producers during periods of acute shortages, the firm issued its own bread coupons — a strictly internal rationing instrument allowing controlled distribution to workers or designated customers without relying on the collapsing official supply chain. These are not banknotes in any monetary sense; they are production-tied ration documents, and their survival rate is low precisely because they were designed to be exchanged and discarded.
Osijek's mixed industrial character under successive Austro-Hungarian and later Yugoslav administrations makes precise dating of such ephemera difficult without accompanying documentation.