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50 Para Socijalna skrb grada Zagreba
| Issuer | Socijalna skrb grada Zagreba (Social Welfare of the City of Zagreb) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain beige paper voucher printed in dark red and blue ink. The issuer's name appears at the top above a double rule, with the denomination numerals flanking a central city coat of arms vignette. The serial number and series letter are set in blue below, with a redemption notice in Latin script along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Socijalna skrb grada Zagreba 50 para Ser. O Br. 11801 Iskupljuje se samo u Patačićkinoj ulici br. 1b |
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Socijalna skrb grada Zagreba — the Social Welfare department of the City of Zagreb — issued emergency small-denomination vouchers during the acute coin shortage that plagued occupied Yugoslavia in the early 1940s. These were not banknotes in any central banking sense; they were municipal scrip, issued by a welfare body rather than a financial institution, intended to substitute for fractional coins that had effectively disappeared from everyday circulation as metal was hoarded or requisitioned.
The issuer's identity is the unusual detail here. A social welfare office issuing circulating currency instruments — even provisional ones — reflects how administratively fragmented Zagreb's wartime monetary arrangements had become under the NDH.