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| Issuer | City of Zagreb (emergency issue for guardsmen) |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue emergency voucher with guilloche rosette at left bearing the denomination '100 DIN.', a central underprint vignette, and the Croatian coat of arms at right. The inscriptions 'ZAGREB ZA GARDISTE' appear in bold letterpress at centre, with a serial number below. Corner ornaments frame all four edges in green. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 din. m.z. design and copyright |
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| Comments |
Zagreb's 1991 emergency guardsmen notes are among the most historically compressed pieces of paper to come out of the Yugoslav dissolution. The city issued these vouchers specifically to pay members of the Croatian National Guard — ZNG — when the formal banking infrastructure had broken down and the federal dinar was becoming operationally useless. They were never intended as general circulation currency and were redeemable only within a narrow institutional framework.
Local printing under wartime conditions means quality control was inconsistent across the run. Paper stock and impression sharpness vary noticeably between surviving examples.