Corona Overprint (Not The Beer Right? Lol)

I have a stamp with the writing on top:

1 CORONA

I looked it up and found this:
Corona: 1. (It., Sp.) crown; 2. Dalmatia overprint on stamps of Italy; also Austria, Italian Occupation.

I have not heard of Dalmatia, so of course I had to look that up too. LOL

So Dalmatia is in Croatia? And that's where Dalmations originated?

My question is, even though I have the imformation, I still don't know WHY 1 CORONA is on the stamp.

Thank you,
SueStamps

My guess would be that is the italian translation of the Austro/Hungarian currency called krone/korona,it was widespread name of the money,even the Scandinavian region do have Krone Norway/Denmark,also Czech Koruna...
It's like the "dollar" derived from the german region currency of "thaler"(I would think so,but not sure:)))

Here's my Dalmatian "Master Buck". Best friend and duck dog I've ever had. He's laying with me here right now. Sorry I had to do it

Catalogue position:
Italy ~ Districts aquired from Austria.

Dalmacia was actually the name that Romans gave to the coast of present Croatia, and it has remained as the usual name until Jugoslavia split. There, even spoke a (vanished) Latin language. Thus, this is the name that Latin languages speaking people, like myself, use to refer to that area, even today.

I rather suspect that 'corona' and 'krone' and all the rest derive from the Latin for 'crown'. Even the British had a coin known as a 'crown', worth five shillings, or 25p in modern parlance.

This link may help (advance 2/3rd way down):

http://www.italianstamps.co.uk/po/occaust/

To quote from the site:

i am stuck on this great Board and I can't get off! I am soo hungary, I need to eat something so I can return

Thanks for the huge amount of information. I just copied ALL of it and printed it out and now have it with my stamp.

And, what an ADORABLE doggie I_Love_Stamps!
Woof!




This is one of two LOL

Sue, not to worry you can take a break..take it from me..the stamp you show is Austria N74 ..the corona I believe is an Austro-Hungary value its overprinted on an Italian stamp..so the Austrians were the occuppiers ? at that time...the 2008 scott catalog values the stamp at 4 dollars unused and 6.75 used !