100 Dinara

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.