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1 000 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Bosne i Hercegovine (National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | First Dinar (1992-1994) |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-orange guilloche underprint with fleur-de-lis ornaments fills the right two-thirds of the note, bearing the large numeral '1000000' in red letterpress at centre and the denomination 'MILION DINARA / МИЛИОН ДИНАРА' below, with 'BON - БОН' inscribed at upper right. To the left, the arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina are printed in red on a plain field, above the bilingual issuer title 'REPUBLIKA BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA / РЕПУБЛИКА БОСНА И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНА' and below a serial number in black; the numeral '1000000' also appears in a horizontal strip at the base of the left panel. |
| Reverse lettering | REPUBLIKA BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA РЕПУБЛИКА БОСНА И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНА BON - БОН MILION DINARA МИЛИОН ДИНАРА (Translation: Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Voucher, One Million Dinara) |
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The Štamparija Oslobođenje press in Sarajevo produced this and related hyperinflation-era notes while the city was under siege — the same printing house that kept its newspaper running throughout the 44-month blockade, famously operating from a partially buried facility to survive shelling. Printing a national currency under those conditions meant chronic shortages of ink, paper stock, and equipment, and it shows in the inconsistency of surviving examples.
The one-million dinar denomination reflects the catastrophic monetary collapse shared across former Yugoslav successor states in 1993–94, driven by war financing and the total disintegration of normal economic activity.