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2 Kune Ministarstvo državne riznice
| Issuer | Ministarstvo državne riznice (Ministry of the State Treasury), Nezavisna Država Hrvatska |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with a simple letterpress design divided into two panels by a vertical rule. The left panel carries the series letter and numeral in red, the denomination numeral in bold black, and a red serial number at foot. The right panel bears a stylised Ustasha 'U' device above the Croatian chequerboard coat of arms, with the issuer's title and denomination in black letterpress, enclosed within a red guilloche border. A validity clause appears at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, showing only faint bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression on plain unprinted paper. |
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The Nezavisna Država Hrvatska — the Ustasha-run puppet state established under German and Italian occupation in April 1941 — stood up its own currency almost immediately, issuing kune to replace the Yugoslav dinar at a fixed exchange rate. These low-denomination treasury notes from 1942 were produced under genuine wartime constraint, and the Ministry of the State Treasury, rather than a proper central bank, served as issuer precisely because the NDH's banking infrastructure was improvised from the start.
Paper quality and print consistency vary noticeably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of wartime supply difficulties.