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| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 10 Dinars (10 Dinara) (10 YUN) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a stylised globe rendered as a pixelated mosaic of varying red tones, overlaid with alphanumeric characters, set against a broad circular guilloche. The large numeral "10" appears at lower right, with the denomination in four languages beneath. Two facsimile signatures of the Deputy Governor and Governor appear at lower left, alongside the date "1.IX.1990" and the trilingual city name "BEOGRAD · VEOGRAD · БЕЛГРАД". A decorative numeral panel is visible at upper left. |
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| Protection description | the numeral "10" visible in the unprinted white margin area of the note. |
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By the time this note entered circulation, Yugoslavia's monetary system was already unraveling. The 1989–90 hyperinflation — peaking at over 2,600% annually — meant low-denomination paper like this 10 Dinara became functionally worthless within weeks of issue. The National Bank was printing and retiring denominations faster than the public could spend them, and the entire dinar series of this period was effectively rendered obsolete by the 1990 redenomination, which lopped four zeros off the currency.
ZIN's engravers are well-documented here: Hrvanović and Damjanovski handled the obverse plates, Medecijan and Obradović the reverse — an unusually full attribution for a note that had almost no economic life.