Catalog
1/2 Dinara
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | МИНИСТАРСТВО ФИНАНСИЈА КРАЉЕВСТВА СРБА ХРВАТА И СЛОВЕНАЦА MINISTARSTVO FINANSIJA KRALJEVSTVA SRBA HRVATA I SLOVENACA MINISTRSTVO FINANCE KRALJEVSTVA SRBOV HRVATOV IN SLOVENCEV 1/2 ДИНАРА / 1/2 DINARA Београд, 1. фебруара 1919 / Beograd, 1. februara 1919 Министар финансија / Ministar finansija M.Cl. Crnčić Fec. (Translation: Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — Belgrade, February 1, 1919 — Minister of Finance) |
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| Protection description | Fine-line guilloche pattern covering the entire note surface on both obverse and reverse, serving as a basic anti-counterfeiting measure. |
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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes had barely been proclaimed when the Ministry of Finance turned to Zagreb's Hrvatska državna tiskara to produce emergency fractional notes — the new state had no central bank and no unified currency apparatus yet. These small-denomination pieces filled an acute coin shortage in the chaotic months following unification in December 1918.
Menci Clement Crnčić, primarily known as a painter and graphic artist associated with Croatian modernism, designed the series. An unusual choice: a fine artist rather than a professional banknote engraver, which shows in the aesthetic priorities of the work.
Pick lists this as P#11 within a fractional series that also covered 1/4 and 1 Dinar values, all produced under the same constrained wartime-surplus printing conditions.