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1 Krone (CF stamp)
| Issuer | Città di Fiume |
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| Year | overprint on 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | JEDNA KORUNA JEDNA KORONA ОДНА КОРОХА UNA CORONA ENA KRONA JEDNA KRUNA ЈЕДНА КРНА UNA CORDANA DIE NACHMACHUNG DER BANKNOTEN WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT A BANKJEGYEK UTÁNZÁSA A TÖRVÉNY SZERINT BÜNTETTETIK Città di Fiume (Translation: City of Fiume) |
| Reverse description | The reverse of the underlying Hungary P-10 note presents two female allegorical heads in intaglio at left and right, framing a central vignette incorporating the rod of Aesculapius, all set against a finely engraved guilloche underprint. Bilingual text in German and Hungarian is integrated within the design field, consistent with standard Austro-Hungarian imperial banknote production of the period. |
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Fiume's status after World War I was genuinely unresolved — neither Italy nor the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes could secure it diplomatically, and for a period the city functioned as a contested free entity. These Austro-Hungarian Kronen notes, overprinted with a "CF" (Città di Fiume) stamp, were a municipal improvisation to assert local administrative identity over currency already in circulation. The overprint itself is the entire point of the piece.
Forgeries and unauthorized stampings exist. Authenticated examples with a clean, well-centered impression command significantly more attention than smudged or partial strikes.