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| Issuer | Narodna Banka Federativne Narodne Republike Jugoslavije |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Currency | Federation Dinar (1944-1965) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour underprint with a vignette on the left side showing farmers harvesting wheat in the field, evoking the agrarian character of the federation. The denomination is rendered in multiple languages corresponding to the constituent republics, in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The designer and engraver credits appear at lower right: O. MUJADŽIĆ FEC. and T. KRNJAJIĆ SC. |
| Reverse lettering | СРБИЈА HRVATSKA SLOVENIJA BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA МАКЕДОНИЈА ЦРНА ГОРА Dinara Динари 100 Динара Dinarjev O. MUJADŽIĆ FEC. T. KRNJAJIĆ SC. |
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| Comments |
The 1953 Yugoslav dinar reform was a quiet but deliberate act of monetary reorientation — the country had broken with Moscow in 1948, and the new note series signaled a self-sufficient socialist state no longer tethered to Soviet models. This 100 Dinara was part of that redesign, produced entirely domestically at ZIN in Belgrade rather than contracted abroad as earlier Yugoslav issues had been.
Mujadžić was a serious figure, a Bosnian painter with genuine academic credentials, and Krnjajić's engraving work for ZIN spanned decades. The collaboration gave the series an unusual degree of artistic coherence for a state-issue of this period.