Yugoslav krone
Currency of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
The krone ( Serbo-Croatian : крyна / kruna ; Slovene : krona ) was a short-lived, provisional currency used in parts of the then newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes , parts of which had previously been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria-Hungary). It was worth 1 ⁄ 4 of a dinar or 25 para. The name translates into English as crown.
History
After World War I , Austria-Hungary was disintegrated into a number of states with its southeastern portion becoming the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs . It and Kingdom of Serbia soon after merged to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , which was later renamed Yugoslavia . The krone replaced the Austro-Hungarian krone at par on November 12, 1918. It circulated alongside the Serbian dinar in State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with an exchange rate of 1 dinar = 4 kronen in the intermediate time before the adoption of the Yugoslav dinar . The exact date at which the krone ceased to circulate is unclear, with one source indicating that the krone was still in circulation at the end of 1922. [1]
Banknotes
The 1919 First Provisional Issue of the Yugoslav krone was (very similar to the Banknotes of the Czechoslovak koruna (1919) issued on 1912 Austro-Hungarian banknotes (with a black validating oval overprint) in 10, 20, 50, 100, and 1,000 Kronen denominations. [2] The 1919 Second Provisional Issue contained the same denominations of 1912 Austro-Hungarian notes, but instead of an oval overprint, adhesive stamps were used for validation. [3] The stamps on 10, 20 and 50 kronen were bilingual ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene ), while stamps on the 100 and 1000 krone notes could have been in any recognized language and either script ( Latin or Cyrillic ). [3]
A brief 1919 dinar issue ( 1 ⁄ 2 , 1, and 5 dinara) [3] was replaced by the Ministry of Finance of the KSCS with a 1919 Krone Provisional Issue ("krone on dinar" notes), which were printed as dinar and overprinted with krone [4] at the ratio of 1 dinar = 4 kronen. Denominations issued were 2, 4, 20, 40, 80, 400 and 4000 kronen on 1 ⁄ 2 , 1, 5, 10, 20, 100 and 1000 dinara. [4] Only the 2 kronen on 1 ⁄ 2 dinar and 4 kronen on 1 dinar had variants without the overprint. [ citation needed ] It is as yet ambiguous as to whether the overprinted version was issued before or after. [ citation needed ]
See also
- Fiume krone , used in the Free State of Fiume until 1920
Notes
References
- Cuhaj, George S. (2010). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money General Issues (1368-1960) (13 ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 978-1-4402-1293-2 .
- Pick, Albert (1994). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money : General Issues . Colin R. Bruce II and Neil Shafer (editors) (7th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-207-9 .
- Pick, Albert (1996). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money : General Issues to 1960 . Colin R. Bruce II and Neil Shafer (editors) (8th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-469-1 .
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