Our final card of the week brings us the Krone. This, in all its variant spellings, covered a lot of ground, pre-euro, and it was used in Austro-Hungary, Denmark, the Free State of Fiume, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. However it was also used under slightly different names in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia Moravia and Slovakia (all as the Koruna), Croatia (as the Kuna), Estonia (as the Kroon), the Faroe Islands (as a Krona), and Hungary (as the Korona),
Today you can still use the Krone, in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Norway and Sweden.
Now this set has several variations, which are all discussed elsewhere on this site, as our Card of the Day for the 24th of May 2024 - and we used this same front. However, this one is the most puzzling for the other two Australian versions are blank to the top of the front, whilst this one shows "HAVELOCK CIGARETTES"
The group was first catalogued in our original Wills reference book part III, as :
104. 50. TIME AND MONEY in Different Countries. Fronts lithographed in colour; backs in grey with descriptive text. Issued 1908. ... W/104
HOME ISSUE :-
A. With I.T.C. and Album Clause
AUSTRALIAN ISSUES :-
B. With "Capstan" advertisement, without Album Clause on backs.
C. With "Havelock" advertisement, with Album Clause on backs.
D. With "Vice-Regal" advertisement, without Album Clause on backs.
Similar series issued by Smith, and Fry (Trade).
In our World Tobacco Issues Indexes the set is split, with the home issue in section 2A and the Australian issues either under 2.B in the original version, or 4.B in the updated version. In both, the set is catalogued more succinctly under the home issue as :
TIME AND MONEY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. Sm. Nd. (50).
and then the Australian section continues this with
Brand issues. See W/104 and H.454
A. "Capstan" back
B. "Havelock" back
C. "Vice-Regal" back. (a) with (b) without album clause.
And as for the text from H.454, which is the handbook, you can read that in full at the home page for this set