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10 Para Kafana Carigrad, Cetinje
| Issuer | Kafana Carigrad (Васиљ Јовановић), Cetinje, Montenegro |
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| Value | 10 Para (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text in Cyrillic letterpress within a double-rule rectangular border. The establishment name and proprietor appear in the upper portion, the denomination ДЕСЕТ ПАРА in large bold type at centre, and a redemption clause below stating ten such tokens may be exchanged for 1 perper. The printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin outside the border. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted verso; the obverse letterpress impression is visible in mirror image as a blind show-through on the plain paper stock. |
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A rare survivor from Montenegro's pre-banking period, when private tavern keepers issued their own small-denomination paper tokens to manage the chronic shortage of small coin in circulation. Kafana Carigrad — "Constantinople Café" — was operated by Vasil Jovanović in Cetinje, the tiny royal capital. These café tokens functioned as informal credit instruments: issued to regulars, redeemable for food, drink, or change, and largely ignored by any regulatory authority.
Rajnvajn's print shop in Cetinje produced several such local issues. The printer's name appearing on a piece this humble is itself unusual — most comparable tokens elsewhere were anonymous.