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1 Lira Yugoslav partisans; second issue
| Issuer | Denarni Zavod Slovenije (Monetary Institute of Slovenia) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with a central guilloche cartouche enclosing the issuer name and redemption text in Slovenian, the denomination ENO LIRO in large bold type, and two facsimile signatures below flanking a small vignette of the Triglav mountain. Numeral 1 repeated in each corner; serial letter and number printed in red at top. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress reverse centred on a circular guilloche medallion bearing the numeral 1 and inscription LIRA within an intricate lathe-work border. Flanking text panels in Slovenian cite the SNOS decrees authorising the issue, dated 12.III.1944 and 20.II.1944; numeral 1 appears in each corner. |
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The Denarni Zavod Slovenije was established in 1944 by the Liberation Front as a parallel monetary authority operating from partisan-held territory — one of the very few resistance movements in occupied Europe to issue its own structured currency rather than relying on captured or black-market scrip. That this second issue was printed at ZIN in Belgrade is a detail worth pausing on: Serbia was under German occupation, yet partisan networks apparently had sufficient underground reach to access state printing infrastructure, or the notes were produced in the immediate chaotic window following the October 1944 liberation of Belgrade.
The Kos numbering system remains the primary reference for Slovenian partisan issues, though surviving examples of the small-denomination notes are considerably rarer than their face value suggests.