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2 Krune overprint on 1/2 Dinara
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Croatian state printer (Hrvatska državna tiskara, HDT), Zagreb, Croatia |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish tones, the obverse carries the inscription of the Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Latin script, Cyrillic script, and Slovenian. The state coat of arms is rendered in green as the central vignette. The overprinted denomination values appear in both Cyrillic and Latin lettering, with the artist's signature noted in the lower field. |
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| Variants | P#14a - overprint "KPУHE" (correct spelling) P#14x - overprint "KУPHE" (incorrect spelling) |
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When the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was proclaimed in December 1918, it inherited a monetary patchwork — Serbian dinara, Austro-Hungarian kronen, and various occupation-era issues all circulating simultaneously. This note is a direct artifact of that chaos: a 1/2 Dinara note of the former Serbian issue overprinted "2 Krune" to make it acceptable in the former Habsburg territories, where the krone was the familiar unit. The conversion ratio itself was politically contentious, with Croatian and Slovenian commercial interests arguing it undervalued their currency relative to the dinar.
Menci Clement Crnčić was primarily a painter and graphic artist — his involvement in banknote design was unusual for someone of his fine arts background, and the HDT in Zagreb had limited experience producing currency at this scale.