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25 Para
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbia, Postal Administration |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 25 Para |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper with perforated edges in the manner of a postage stamp, the obverse carries the denomination '25 п.' at upper left and the Cyrillic issuer inscription 'СРБИЈА' at upper right. The central vignette, executed in fine line engraving, presents King Peter I of Serbia seated on the ground in a field, accompanied by two standing figures against a distant landscape of hills and scrub. A Cyrillic caption along the lower margin reads 'КРАЉ ПЕТАР НА БОЈИШТУ 1914.' |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left entirely unprinted, consisting of plain white ungummed paper with no design, text, or security elements. |
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Serbia's Postal Administration stepped in as an emergency currency issuer in 1915 as the country's banking infrastructure collapsed under the combined pressure of the Austro-Hungarian invasion and the devastating typhus epidemic that had already killed tens of thousands earlier that year. These postal notes — sitnice, as the small-denomination fractional pieces were called — were a stopgap measure, never intended as a lasting monetary instrument.
The Kingdom would cease to exist as a functioning state within months of this note's issue, following the catastrophic autumn retreat through Albania. Most of these pieces were lost to that collapse rather than redeemed.