Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 German Marks Bugojno Municipality
| Issuer | Opština Bugojno (Bugojno Municipality), Secretariat of Finance |
|---|---|
| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the face carries an intricate guilloche underprint with radiating lathe-work patterns filling the entire field. The large numeral '10' is centred in bold letterpress, flanked by 'DEM' at left and right; issuer inscriptions appear across the upper register in Latin script. A red serial number is printed below centre. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse, largely unprinted. A circular red ink validation stamp is applied off-centre to the right, bearing the legend of the Social Accounting Service (Služba društvenog knjigovodstva) in Cyrillic, with the date 03.11.93 and '+ BUGOJNO +' at the base. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Bugojno's municipal emergency currency from 1993 belongs to the fragmented monetary landscape that emerged across Bosnia-Herzegovina after the collapse of the Yugoslav dinar and the disruption of normal banking during the war. Individual municipalities, factories, and even hotels issued their own scrip when the supply of usable currency simply broke down. These notes had no formal backing and circulated only within the issuing community's sphere of trust — often a single town or a few neighboring settlements.
The rubber stamp security feature is characteristic of improvised wartime issues: authentication by bureaucratic impression rather than printing technology. Bugojno itself changed hands during 1993, which gives notes from this specific period a compressed and chaotic circulation window.