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1 Lira Yugoslav partisans; second issue

Issuer Denarni Zavod Slovenije (Monetary Institute of Slovenia)
Year 1944
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Printer Serbian state printer (ZIN - Zavod za izradu novčanica i kovanog novca), Belgrade, Serbia (1929-date)
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Obverse lettering DENARNI ZAVOD SLOVENIJE
PLAČA
OB IZDAJI ENOTNEGA
DRŽAVNEGA DENARJA
PRINOSITELJU TEGA BONA
ENO LIRO
V TAKRATNI DRŽAVNI VALUTI
BLAGAJNIK
PREDSEDNIK
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Reverse lettering ODLOK PREDSEDSTVA SNOS O POOBLASTITVI DENARNEGA ZAVODA SLOVENIJE PRI PREDSEDSTVU SNOS
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LIRA
ZA IZDAJO PLAČILNIH BONOV Z DNE 12·III·1944 V ZV. Z ODLOKOM SNOS O IZDAJI PLAČ. BONA Z DNE 20·II·1944
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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.

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