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50 Kruna
| Issuer | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | P#8B |
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| Obverse lettering | KRALJEVSTVO SRBA, HRVATA I SLOVENACA ПЕДЕСЕТ КРУНА PEDESET KRUNA FÜNFZIG KRONEN PADESAT KORUN PATDESIT KRON CINQUANTA CORONE CINCIZECI CORDANE DIE OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK ZAHLT GEGEN DIESE BANKNOTE BEI IHREN HAUPTANSTALTEN IN WIEN UND BUDAPEST SOFORT AUF VERLANGEN OESTERREICHISCH-UNGARISCHE BANK GOUVERNEUR GENERALRAT GENERALSEKRETÄR |
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| Reverse lettering | ÖTVEN KORONA AZ OSZTRAK-MAGYAR BANK E BANKJEGYÉRT BARKI KIVÁNSÁGÁRA, AZONNAL, BÉCSI ÉS BUDAPESTI FŐINTÉZETEINÉL TÖRVÉNYES ÉRCZPÉNZT FIZET OSZTRÁK-MAGYAR BANK FŐTANÁCSOS KORMÁNYZÓ VEZÉTITKÁR |
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Pick 8B is a provisional issue, not an original design. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — proclaimed in December 1918 — had no printing infrastructure of its own yet, so it overstamped existing Austro-Hungarian banknotes to assert monetary control over the newly unified territory. The overstamp converted enemy-currency stock into ostensibly legitimate tender almost overnight.
The "B" suffix distinguishes this from Pick 8A by the stamp placement or color variant — a detail that matters more to completists than the casual buyer, but separates meaningfully different print runs in auction records.
Forgeries of the overstamp itself were circulating within months of issue.