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10 Helera
| Issuer | Municipality of Sarajevo (Opština Glav. Grada Sarajeva) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | OPŠTINA GLAV. GRADA SARAJEVA. Ovu naputnicu izmjenjuju sve gradske blagajne sa 10 helera u zakonitoj vrijednosti do 31. decembra 1919. Sarajevo, 20. sept. 1919. Predsjednik opštine: Odobreno po ministarstvu finansija naredbom od 9. jula 1919. I. br. 1796 time, da ovaj sitni papirni novac može cirkulirati samo u području grada Sarajeva. |
| Reverse description | Light brown guilloche underprint on yellowish paper with dark brown letterpress text, the layout mirroring the obverse but with all inscriptions rendered in Cyrillic script. The heading 'ОПШТИНА ГЛАВ. ГРАДА САРАЈЕВА.' appears at the top, the denomination '10 хелера' is set in bold at center, and the validity and authorization clauses are repeated below, accompanied by a manuscript signature of the municipal president. |
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Municipal scrip of this kind emerged across the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1919 because the currency transition from Austro-Hungarian Krone was slow and chaotic. Sarajevo's municipality stepped in to fill a genuine small-change vacuum — the Heller, the lowest denomination of the old empire, had all but disappeared from circulation as people hoarded or discarded coins of a collapsed state.
Printed locally under difficult postwar conditions, the production quality reflects that — registration inconsistencies and uneven ink are common to the series and should not be read as damage.