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10 Kronen (CF stamp)
| Issuer | City of Fiume |
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| Year | overprint on 1904 |
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| Value | 10 Corone |
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| Obverse lettering | CITTÁ DE FIUME (Translation: City of Fiume) |
| Reverse description | The German-language reverse of the underlying Austro-Hungarian Bank 10 Kronen note mirrors the obverse layout, with the denomination 'ZEHN KRONEN' rendered in large letterpress text and a circular vignette of a young woman in three-quarter portrait enclosed within a guilloche surround. Any handstamps or overprints encountered on this side are regarded by specialists as privately applied at a considerably later date and are not considered official Fiume municipal issues. |
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Fiume's postwar status produced some of the more administratively chaotic monetary arrangements in interwar Europe. When the city was left in limbo after 1918 — neither ceded to Italy nor retained by Yugoslavia — local authorities improvised. Austrian Austro-Hungarian banknotes already in circulation were counterstamped with a "CF" (Corpus Fiumanum) overprint to distinguish them as locally valid tender while the political dispute dragged on through 1920.
The underlying 1904-dated note was a product of a functioning empire. The stamp that made it a Fiume issue was applied under conditions closer to municipal desperation than central banking.