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1.500 Lir
| Issuer | Okrožni Narodno Osvobodilni Odbor za Gorisko (District National Liberation Committee for Gorica/Gorizia/Görz) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2002) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper certificate-style note with sparse typeset letterpress text in Slovenian, headed 'OKROŽNI NARODNO OSVOBODILNI ODBOR ZA GORISKO' at upper left and the word 'Potrdilo' (Receipt/Certificate) at upper centre. The denomination of 1500 Lire is entered by hand in the body of the text alongside the bearer's handwritten name, with a faint intaglio-style circular vignette of a portrait at right and the official circular stamp of the Okrožni Odbor za Gorisko at centre. Signature lines for 'Predsednik' (President), 'Tajnik' (Secretary), and 'Pooblašcenec' (Authorized representative) appear at the foot, each bearing manuscript signatures, with the handwritten date 13-V-1944. |
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| Obverse lettering | OKROŽNI NARODNO OSVOBODILNI ODBOR ZA GORISKO Potrdilo Potrjujemo, da je ter. vplačal(a) darce znesek Ric. 1500 z besedami: tisoč petsto kot posojilo svobode. Predsednik: Tajnik: Dne 13-V- 1944 Pooblašcenec: Posojilo svobode je razpisala Osvobodilna fronta slovenskega naroda in bo vrne po dokončni odgovornosti podrobnejšimi predpisi v takrat veljavni valuti. |
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The Okrožni Narodno Osvobodilni Odbor za Gorisko was one of several partisan administrative bodies operating in the contested Slovenian littoral region during German occupation, issuing this note in 1944 to finance local resistance operations and establish civilian economic authority in territory Italy had lost administrative control of following the September 1943 armistice. Gorica itself sat at the center of the postwar border dispute that would preoccupy the Paris Peace Conference for two years.
The denomination — 1,500 lire — is deliberately awkward, almost certainly chosen to absorb specific local debts or payroll obligations rather than to slot into any rational currency system. Notes issued by partisan committees in this zone are rarely encountered; most were redeemed, destroyed, or simply worn out in the chaotic months before Yugoslav and Allied forces sorted out control of the region in 1945.