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100 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Federativne Narodne Republike Jugoslavije (National Bank of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1955 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red on multicolour underprint. Intaglio vignette of a young woman in traditional Yugoslav national costume at left, rendered with fine engraved detail against a landscape background. The issuing authority inscription appears at upper right within an ornate guilloche border, with the denomination numeral 100 in a central cartouche rendered in multiple scripts; two manuscript signatures appear below, flanking the date BEOGRAD, 1 MAJ 1955, with a two-letter serial prefix and six-digit serial number in red at lower centre. |
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The 1955 Yugoslav 100 Dinara series was issued as the country consolidated its post-Tito break with the Soviet bloc and sought to project a distinctly Yugoslav socialist identity — neither Stalinist nor Western. ZIN had been producing Yugoslav currency since the interwar Kingdom period, and by the mid-1950s the engraving standards coming out of Belgrade were genuinely competitive with Western European state printers. Krnjajić and Kocmut were among the more technically accomplished engravers working at ZIN during this period, and the division of labor between obverse and reverse engravers was typical of how the workshop allocated specializations.
This note preceded the 1965 redenomination, when Yugoslavia replaced 100 old dinara with 1 new dinar — rendering the entire pre-reform series obsolete at a stroke.