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| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije / National Bank of Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink-red cheque voucher printed on light paper, with the issuer's name repeated along the top border in Serbian Cyrillic, Latin, and French scripts. The central area carries the denomination '100' in large bold numerals flanked by denomination labels in four languages, all set over a guilloche underprint of fine rosette patterns. The lower half contains ruled fields for date, place of issue, drawer, and authorised signatures, with a serial number printed at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2363208 |
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Yugoslavia's 1983 100 Dinara arrived as inflation was beginning its long acceleration toward the eventual hyperinflationary collapse of the late 1980s. The note was printed by ZIN — Zavod za Izradu Novčanica, the state security printing works in Belgrade — which produced the entire Yugoslav banknote series domestically, a point of deliberate policy after the country's break with Soviet alignment made self-sufficiency a priority across strategic industries.
By the mid-1980s, successive redenominations would render this denomination effectively trivial in purchasing power. High-circulation notes from this period frequently show heavy soil and fold damage; the paper quality ZIN used in this run was notably less durable than the Swiss-printed issues of earlier decades.