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1 Perper
| Issuer | Glavna Državna Blagajna (Main State Treasury) of Montenegro |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue-printed note centred on an oval guilloche frame enclosing the Cyrillic denomination legendЈЕДАН ПЕРПЕР and the large numeral 1 in each lateral panel. An anchor-and-scales vignette surmounts the oval at top centre, flanked by rectangular corner cartouches bearing the issuer name in Cyrillic. The main text block above the denomination reads that the Main State Treasury will pay the bearer one Perper, followed by signature lines for the President of the Main State Accounting Office and the Minister of Finance, both bearing manuscript signatures and an official circular control stamp in violet. Serial number and series designation appear in the upper and lower margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | КРАЉЕВИНА ЦРНАГОРА Главна Државна Благајна Аодашује доносиоцу ове упутнице Један Перпер ЈЕДАН ПЕРПЕР Председник Главне Државне Knjиговoђe Министар финансија Вриједи за годину дана. Цетиње, 25 јула 1914. |
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Montenegro printed its own emergency currency at Cetinje in 1914 — a rare case of a small Balkan state operating a functioning domestic press under wartime pressure. The Austro-Hungarian invasion later that year disrupted everything; most of these notes circulated hard and briefly before the occupation effectively ended Montenegrin monetary autonomy in early 1916.
The only security feature is an official stamp, which made forgery relatively straightforward. Surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than the catalog frequency suggests.