Catalog
10 000 Dinars Not issued
| Issuer | National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Narodna banka Kraljevine Jugoslavije) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of the young King Peter II in military dress uniform occupies the left third of the note, rendered with fine line engraving against a guilloche underprint of interlaced olive and cream tones. At centre, the large Cyrillic denomination ДЕСЕТ ХИЉАДА ДИНАРА is set within an ornate cartouche surmounted by the royal crown, flanked by a double-headed eagle vignette at upper right. The bank title НАРОДНА БАНКА КРАЉЕВИНЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ runs across the upper panel, with the issue date Београд, 6 септембар 1936 and two manuscript facsimile signatures of the Члан управе and Гувернер appearing below the central text. |
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| Protection description | Head of King Peter I in general's uniform, in profile |
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Designed in 1936 for the National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, this note was never issued — the date printed on each sheet, 30 April 1945, falls on the same day Tito's Partisans entered Zagreb and the Ustasha regime collapsed. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia had effectively ceased to exist years earlier; by the time ZIN completed the print run, the issuing authority on the face of the note was a political fiction.
Engraved by Veljko Andrejević Kun, one of the more accomplished intaglio craftsmen working at ZIN during the interwar and wartime period. The nine-year gap between the design date and the print date is the note's most telling detail.