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1 Corona
| Issuer | Città di Fiume |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Corona (1919-1920) |
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| Obverse description | Austro-Hungarian 1 Korona note (Austria P-20) overprinted with the "CITTÁ DE FIUME" handstamp applied over the Hungarian text, per decree requiring placement on the Hungarian-language side. Central guilloche underprint in red with the numeral "1" at right; bilingual German-Hungarian anti-counterfeiting legends below. Block numbers 1000–1700 identify genuine Fiume issues. |
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| Reverse description | Two female allegorical heads flank a central vignette incorporating the Aesculapian rod, rendered in intaglio on a fine guilloche background. Bilingual German and Hungarian text panels frame the design, with denomination indicators in each corner. |
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Fiume's municipal notes of 1920 occupy one of the strangest political moments in interwar Europe. After Italian regular forces expelled D'Annunzio's legionaries in the "Bloody Christmas" of December 1920, the short-lived Italian Regency of Carnaro collapsed — and the city briefly reverted to a provisional municipal administration scrambling to maintain basic commercial function. These notes were issued by the Città di Fiume precisely during that administrative vacuum, not by any recognized national treasury.
The Treaty of Rapallo, signed November 1920, had already declared Fiume a free state, meaning this issue technically circulated under a sovereign status that no functioning government was actually administering. A bureaucratic note born in a political nowhere.