1000 Kruna Slovenian

This note belongs to a transitional monetary episode that followed the collapse of Austria-Hungary. Rather than print entirely new currency, the new Kingdom simply overstamped existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes — in this case, 1000 Kronen notes issued by the Austro-Hungarian Bank in Vienna — with Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian text to assert fiscal authority over the former imperial currency still circulating across the northern territories.

The overprinting was done hastily and inconsistently, which produced multiple stamp varieties. Pick lists both 10a and 10b variants distinguished by differences in the overprint application. Forgeries of the stamps were also a documented problem almost immediately after issue.