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400 Kruna overprint on 100 Dinara
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 400 Kruna |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in pale violet-rose, presents four intaglio portrait medallions of classical female heads set into ornate circular frames at each corner of the elaborately guilloche-patterned field. The central area carries the large denomination numerals '100' flanked by the legend 'CENT DINARS CENT' in letterpress, with the overprinted value 'КРУНА 400 KRUNA / KRON.' applied in red at the lower centre. The issuing authority inscription 'MINISTÈRE DES FINANCES DU ROYAUME DES SERBES, CROATES ET SLOVÈNES' appears in French at the top. |
| Reverse lettering | MINISTÈRE DES FINANCES DU ROYAUME DES SERBES, CROATES ET SLOVÈNES CENT DINARS CENT 100 КРУНА 400 KRUNA KRON. A. VAUTHIER GA SC. H CABASSON INV-DIREX L. MASSEY |
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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 currencies all circulating simultaneously across territories that had never shared a common economy. This note addresses that problem directly: rather than printing new stock, the Ministry of Finance overstamped existing French-printed 100 Dinara notes with a 400 Kruna value, creating a temporary bridge instrument for the newly incorporated Slovenian and Croatian territories where krone-based pricing was still the daily reality.
The underlying Banque de France plate — engraved by Massey, designed under Harang's direction — was already in use for Serbian state purposes before the war ended. The overprint repurposed it wholesale, which made fiscal sense but produced a note whose face value bore no logical relationship to its printed denomination by conventional reckoning.