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| Issuer | Narodna Banka Republike Srpske Krajine (National Bank of the Republic of Serbian Krajina) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Printer | Serbian state printer (ZIN - Zavod za izradu novčanica i kovanog novca), Beograd, Serbia (1929-date) |
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| Reverse description | A curved artistic guilloche design occupies the left-centre field, with the coat of arms of the Republic of Serbian Krajina placed at right. All legends appear in Latin script, presenting the issuing authority's name and denomination in the Serbian Latin orthography. |
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| Protection description | The note is printed on watermarked paper. |
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The Republic of Serbian Krajina was a self-declared Serb entity within Croatian territory, unrecognized internationally and entirely dependent on Belgrade for practical support — including its currency. This note was printed at ZIN in Belgrade, and the institutional fiction of a separate "Narodna Banka Republike Srpske Krajine" barely concealed what was effectively a monetary extension of the National Bank of Yugoslavia. By late 1993, Serbian federal inflation was already catastrophic, and the RSK's own denomination spiral tracked it closely. One billion dinara as a face value reflects not just wartime disruption but the near-total collapse of purchasing power across the broader Yugoslav successor currencies during this period.