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10 Filira first issue
| Issuer | Općina Sl. i Kr. Grada Osljeka (Municipality of the Royal and Free City of Osijek) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Filira (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on yellowish paper with a greenish guilloche underprint, the note carries bold letterpress text in Croatian. The issuing authority 'OPĆINA SL. I KR. GRADA OSLJEKA' is set at the top, followed by the denomination 'sa 10 filira' in large display type at centre. Below, the text states legal validity until 10 kolovoza (August) 1919, with the issue date 'Osijek, 10. lipnja 1919' and the title 'Gradski načelnik' (City Mayor) accompanied by a manuscript signature, followed by a further approval notice referencing the Ministry of Finance decree of 5 svibnja (May) 1919. |
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| Obverse lettering | OPĆINA SL. I KR. GRADA OSLJEKA. Ovu naputnicu izmjenjuju sve grad. blagajne sa 10 filira u zakon. vrijednosti do 10. kolovoza 1919. Osijek 10. lipnja 1919. Gradski načelnik : Odobreno po ministar. finansija prema rješenju gener. inspektorata od 5. svibnja 1919. br. 1106 time, da ovaj sitan papirni novac može opticati samo na području grada Osljeka |
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Municipal emergency scrip from the immediate postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system. Osijek — then still rendered in Croatian as "Osijek" but administratively transitioning from the Hungarian "Eszék" — issued these tiny fractional notes because coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down amid the chaos of 1918–19. The filir denomination itself was already becoming obsolete; the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was moving toward its own currency, making this issue a stopgap printed against a monetary order that no longer functionally existed.
The "first issue" designation implies at least one subsequent emission, suggesting the shortage persisted longer than authorities initially anticipated.