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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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| Obverse description | Red guilloche underprint covers the left two-thirds of the note, interspersed with fleur-de-lis ornaments, with the large numeral '1000000' in bold letterpress at centre-left and the denomination 'MILION DINARA / МИЛИОН ДИНАРА' below. To the right, the arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina are printed above the governor's signature line and the date '1. SIJEČANJ - JANUAR 1994', with the bilingual bank title 'NARODNA BANKA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE / НАРОДНА БАНКА БОСНЕ И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНЕ' at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | NARODNA BANKA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE НАРОДНА БАНКА БОСНЕ И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНЕ GUVERNER - ГУБЕРНЕР 1. SIJEČANJ - JANUAR 1994 MILION DINARA МИЛИОН ДИНАРА (Translation: National Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Governor, 1 January 1994, 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.