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1 Srbijanka

Issuer Yugoslavia
Year 1991
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Designer(s) R. Šteković
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Obverse description Blue guilloche border frames two circular vignettes: at left, a bearded saint in an orange roundel; at right, a crowned medieval king in an orange roundel. The Serbian double-headed eagle coat of arms on a purple cross-shaped underprint occupies the centre. Cyrillic inscriptions appear in the upper and lower blue panels, with denomination numeral "1" at each corner.
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РЕПУБЛИКА СРБИЈА
СРПСКА НАРОДНА БАНКА
ЈЕДНА
СРБИЈАНКА
БЕОГРАД 1. АВГУСТА 1991
ФАЛСИФИКОВАЊЕ СЕ КАЖЊАВА ПО ЗАКОНУ
РС - 2011960
СРБИЈАНКА
1 1
Р. ШТЕКОВИЋ • ПРОДУКЦИЈА РАИНА •
ШТАМПА РУЈНО УЖИЦЕ
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The "Srbijanka" nickname for this note emerged almost immediately after issue — a public shorthand that acknowledged, with some irony, that the Yugoslav federation was by 1991 essentially a Serbian fiscal operation. The note was printed by Štampa Rujno in Užice, a Serbian printing house pressed into currency production as the federal system began fragmenting and the National Bank of Yugoslavia scrambled to meet demand during accelerating hyperinflation.

Užice-printed notes from this period often show inconsistent ink saturation across the run — a quality control problem endemic to the facility under crisis-production conditions.

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