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10 000 000 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette illustrates a Tesla high-voltage electrical discharge experiment, with a large luminous sphere emitting dramatic lightning bolts and radiating energy waves across a dark field, accompanied by a secondary spherical element and a Tesla coil schematic to the right, all rendered in violet and pink on a rose guilloche ground. The denomination numeral "10000000000" is placed at lower right, with the spelled-out value "ДЕСЕТ МИЛИЈАРДИ ДИНАРА / DESET MILIJARDI DINARA" in bilingual Cyrillic and Latin script beneath. The Governor's signature appears at lower left above the bilingual place and date inscription "БЕОГРАД 1993. BEOGRAD", with the printer's imprint along the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Nikola Tesla's portrait watermark, visible when held to light. |
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Yugoslavia's hyperinflation of 1993 was among the worst ever recorded — second only to Hungary's 1946 episode by some measures. Monthly inflation peaked at 313,000,000% in January 1994, and denominations escalated so rapidly that the 10 billion dinar note was rendered practically worthless within weeks of issue. The government printed new denominations faster than the public could spend the old ones.
ZIN produced the entire collapsing series domestically, under increasingly strained conditions. Watermarking remained the sole security feature by this stage — a telling sign of how little counterfeiting risk mattered when the note's value evaporated before any forgery could turn a profit.