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Bread coupon Vodnjan
| Issuer | Općina Vodnjan / Comune di Dignano |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Light blue coupon with the municipal coat of arms of Vodnjan at centre top, showing a red cross on a white shield. The issuer name appears in black at upper left and right in Croatian and Italian respectively. The denomination and purpose are printed in large bold blue letterpress text in two languages, with the weight quantity below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light blue paper, entirely blank with no text, vignette, or printed design. |
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Vodnjan (Italian: Dignano) sits in the Istrian interior, and its wartime bread coupons reflect the administrative bilingualism of a region that changed hands repeatedly — from Austria-Hungary to Italy after 1918, and later to Yugoslavia. The dual naming on this coupon, in both Croatian and Italian, points to a transitional moment when neither identity had been fully suppressed by the other.
Bread coupons of this type were municipal instruments of rationing, not currency, though they circulated as such when food shortages made controlled distribution more urgent than banking formality. Paper composition makes survival rates low.