Paper money
- Museum number:
- 7-9714
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21070009714
- Accession number:
- Acc.4520
- Description:
- Montenegrin currency; paper; image: rectangular shape, ivory colored paper, design and text in black ink, two punched holes, Montenegrin Coat of Arms (middle), framed by intricate designs covering bill, a five in each corner framed by a circle, two large fives on each side of Coat of Arms; text: Hека Главна Аркавна Благаjна исплати доносиоцу ове упуынице (above), ПЕТ ПЕРПЕРА (middle, big letters), Cерија А 66186 (stamped on bill), below: Вредност упытнице траје голино дана од дана публикацийе закона о овлашћењу пыштанањa исте у течај, Цетиње, 1. октобра 1912., Предсйедния Главне Контрло (left), Министар Финансийа (right), UNTIE PRAGUE (written in Czech in fine print in bottom right corner); translation (*translator's note: I do not read Serbian/Montenegrin, so the translation may require revision at a later time): Let the Master of Treasuries be paid by the bearer of this currency (above), FIVE PERPERA (middle, in large print), Series A 66186 (stamped on bill), below: The value of the uptake(?) lasts for days from the date of publication of the law on the authorization to _____ (?) it into the course, Cetinje (?), October 1, 1912, (signed) the President of the Main Control (left), (signed) the Minister of Finance (right), Printed in Prague (in fine print in bottom right corner). Length x Width: 14.5 cm x 9.5 cm; **Note: the two punched holes indicate that the bill is no longer available for usage.
- Donor:
- George Leitmann and Nancy Leitmann
- Collection place:
- Montenegro
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Russia
- Production place:
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Culture or time period:
- Montenegrins
- Collector:
- Josef Leitmann
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Paper money
- Function:
- 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
- Department:
- Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
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