20 Dinara Italian occupation - overprint: VERIFICATO
Features
| Issuer |
Montenegro
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
Italian governorate (1941-1943)
|
| Type | Standard circulation banknotes |
| Year | 1941 |
| Value | 20 Dinars |
| Currency | Dinar (1941) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 135 × 80 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Technique | (handstamp) |
| Demonetized | 1943 |
| Number | N# 428476 |
| References | P# R11 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). |
Obverse
Portrait of King Peter II of Yugoslavia in the middle.
Scripts: Cyrillic, Latin
Lettering: П. CTOJИЋÉВИЋ FEC. VELJKO А. КUN SC.
Engraver: Veljko Andrejević Kun
Designer: Panta Stojičević
Reverse
Queen Maria of Yugoslavia in the middle (Marija Karađorđević) (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961)
Script: Latin
Lettering: P. STOJICEVIC FEC. VELJKO А. КUN SC.
Engraver: Veljko Andrejević Kun
Designer: Panta Stojičević
Printer
Serbian state printer (ZIN - Zavod za izradu novčanica i kovanog novca), Belgrade, Serbia (1929-date)Comments
Handstamp "Verificato" of 20 Dinara P30.
Upon the Italian invasion in WWII, the Yugoslav Treasury was anxious to take to safety the whole stock of money in its possession. The men in charge took the Treasury away up to the Montenegrin mountains, with the Italian army following closely on their heels. When they were finally surrounded by the Italians, they were forced to make a quick decision: They packed the whole stock in a grotto and lit it. But peasants of the neighborhood managed to save a huge amount of these notes and get away with it.
The Italian Military Administration after investigating the matter had a complete list of all serial numbers made of the notes burned in the grotto. Then they proclaimed all these serials null and void.
At the same time they ordered the local population to bring the remaining notes they had retained to the Italian Authorities for registration. Every note was twice stamped with a round stamp "VERIFICATO".
https://banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/EUR/YUG/YUGR0012.htm .
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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