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10 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a finely engraved intaglio portrait vignette of a young girl in three-quarter view with long hair, printed in brown tones over a guilloche underprint in orange and brown. To the centre-right, a large circular guilloche ornament encloses a decorative monogram cartouche, below which the denomination numeral 10000 and the bilingual inscription ДИНАРА – DINARA appear. The issuer's name in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts runs across the upper portion of the note, with the engravers' credits D. ANDRIĆ FEC. and N. HRVANOVIĆ SC. in small lettering near the portrait. |
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| Protection description | The note includes a margin watermark in the white border area at right showing a mirrored image of the girl's portrait as seen on the obverse. |
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Yugoslavia's hyperinflation of the early 1990s was among the most severe in European history, and this 10,000 Dinar note sits squarely in the middle of it. By the time it entered circulation in 1992, the dinar was losing value faster than the ZIN presses could print replacement denominations — the 10,000 would itself be superseded almost immediately by notes of 50,000, then 500,000, and ultimately denominations reaching into the hundreds of billions before the currency collapsed entirely in early 1994.
Engraving credits across the two faces were split between three individuals — Hrvanović on the obverse, Medecijan and Obradović on the reverse — an unusual division that reflects the ZIN's internal workshop structure rather than any particular artistic program.