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Fiume
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100 Kronen, 1920
Round hand stamp CITTA DI FIUME
on front of Austria 100 Kronen 2. 1. 1912 note.
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100 Kronen, 1920
Round hand stamp CITTA DI FIUME on front
and rectangular overprint INSTITUTO DI CREDITO
CONSIGLIO NATIONALE, CITTA DI FIUME on back
of Austria 100 Kronen 2. 1. 1912 note.
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Scans courtesy of Laurence Pope
The note was sold for £160 plus 20% buyer's premium (about $314) at Spink's April 12, 2011 London Auction
of The Laurence Pope Collection of World Banknotes.
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Fiume (Rijeka), located on the Kvarner gulf of the Adriatic Sea, was
incorporated into Austria in 1471, made a free port in 1717, united to Croatia
in 1776, and declared an autonomous city of the Austria crown in 1779. The French
occupied the city during 1809-14, after which it alternated under Austrian,
Hungarian and Croatian rule until after WWI, when it was yielded to the new
Yugoslavia. It came under Italian control in 1924. Occupied by Germany during
WWII. Liberated by Yugoslavia in 1945, and again became part of Yugoslavia.
Rijeka became a city in Croatia when the latter proclaimed independence from
Yugoslavia in 1991. For a more detailed
country profile, see CIA World Factbook on Croatia.
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