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10 Liters diesel fuel coupon
| Issuer | Savezni Sekretarijat za Tržište i Opće Privredne Poslove (Federal Secretariat for Market and General Economic Affairs), Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1982-1984 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Coupon printed in dark red on a cream ground with guilloche underprint. The left stub bears the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia state arms and a red serial number prefix letter with numeral series below. The main field carries the month and year at top, the large BON-BON legend in Cyrillic and Latin, the numeral 10 flanked by the word 'DIESEL/ДИЗЕЛ' in four official languages, and the issuing authority in four lines at foot. |
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| Protection description | Repeated 'SFRJ ☆ СФРЈ ☆' watermark visible throughout the paper |
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Yugoslavia's chronic fuel shortages of the early 1980s forced the federal government to introduce rationed fuel coupons as a stopgap against spiraling import costs and a hard-currency deficit that made petroleum purchasing increasingly untenable. Private motorists were allocated fixed monthly quotas, with these coupons distributed through local communes and redeemed at filling stations in lieu of cash payment for the metered amount.
The watermark is an unexpectedly serious security measure for what amounts to a rationing chit — counterfeiting of fuel coupons was a genuine enforcement problem during the period.