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1 Perper
| Issuer | Republic of Montenegro (Souvenir issue) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Oval vignette at left centre with a portrait of King Nikola I of Montenegro (r. 1910–1918) in full military dress uniform with decorations. To the right, a large gold-printed double-headed eagle underprint frames the brown intaglio-style numeral "1 ПЕРПЕР". Scrollwork guilloche ornaments fill the upper corners. |
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| Reverse description | Oval vignette at right centre with a portrait of Saint Basil of Ostrog (1610–1671), shown in bishop's vestments with a halo, rendered in brown on a light guilloche ground. The left half carries a gold-printed decorative underprint with stylized foliate scrollwork and the bold Cyrillic denomination "1 ПЕРПЕР" at centre. |
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Montenegro was not an independent republic in 1991 — it was still a constituent part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which formally dissolved that same year. This note was never legal tender. Štamparija "Rujno" in Užice was a commercial print house, not a state security printer, and the issue was produced as a souvenir or commemorative item, anticipating or symbolically asserting a Montenegrin monetary identity that would not become a political reality for another decade and a half.
Vergović's involvement suggests local design talent was used rather than any official mint or currency bureau. The Užice connection is worth noting — the town had its own brief monetary history as the center of the short-lived Užice Republic in 1941.