1 Lira Yugoslav partisans, first issue

The Denarni Zavod Slovenije was established by the Slovenian partisan movement in 1944 to create a functioning monetary system in liberated territory — a direct assertion of administrative authority by the Liberation Front while German and Italian occupation forces still held much of the country. This 1 Lira belongs to the first emission, printed clandestinely at the Triglav Tiskarna, a mobile partisan press operating in the forests of Goteniški Snežnik.

Survival rates are low. Occupation forces actively sought out and destroyed partisan currency infrastructure, and the printing operation itself had to move repeatedly to avoid raids.