Catalog
10 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Bosne i Hercegovine (National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in grey-green on white stock, the reverse carries a guilloche underprint of fleur-de-lis motifs across the central and right portions of the field, over which a large numeral '10' is superimposed. The Bosnian coat of arms appears at upper left alongside the bilingual issuer inscription in Latin and Cyrillic, with 'BON - БОН' above and the denomination 'DESET DINARA / ДЕСЕТ ДИНАРА' below the central numeral; a serial number with prefix letters is printed along the left margin, and a barcode strip with the numeral '10' occupies the lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | REPUBLIKA BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA РЕПУБЛИКА БОСНА И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНА BON - БОН DESET DINARA ДЕСЕТ ДИНАРА 10 (Translation: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Voucher / Ten Dinara) |
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Oslobođenje — "Liberation" — was Sarajevo's main daily newspaper, and its printing house became the wartime production facility for Bosnia's first independent currency after the republic declared independence from Yugoslavia in early 1992. The press ran notes under siege conditions, with the city already under bombardment by the time much of this series entered circulation. That origin explains the noticeably inconsistent print quality seen across the issue.
P#21 sits in one of the more compressed monetary histories of the twentieth century — within two years, hyperinflation had made the entire Bosnian dinar series effectively worthless.