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100 Lir Yugoslav partisans
| Issuer | Denarni Zavod Slovenije (Monetary Institute of Slovenia) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DENARNI ZAVOD SLOVENIJE PRI PREDSEDSTVU SNOS PLAČA OB IZDAJI ENOTNEGA DRŽAVNEGA DENARJA PRINOSITELJU TEGA BONA STO LIR V TAKRATNI DRŽAVNI VALUTI BLAGAJNIK PREDSEDNIK |
| Reverse description | Brown on tan letterpress reverse centred on a large guilloche rosette enclosing the numeral 100, rendered in concentric geometric lathe-work rings. The bold inscription STO LIR appears at upper left and upper right, with the numeral 100 repeated in four ornamental corner cartouches. Two flanking text blocks cite the authorising decrees of the Presidency of SNOS dated 20.II.1944 and 12.III.1944 empowering the Denarni Zavod Slovenije to issue these payment vouchers. |
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The Denarni Zavod Slovenije was established in early 1944 by the Liberation Front under Edvard Kardelj as the financial arm of the Slovenian partisan administration — one of the more operationally serious attempts by any European resistance movement to build functioning monetary infrastructure during occupation. These notes circulated in liberated zones of Slovenia while German and Italian occupation currencies still nominally held authority elsewhere in the same territory.
Printing at ZIN in Belgrade places production after the city's liberation in October 1944, compressing the window between printing and the end of hostilities considerably. Few notes saw extended circulation before Yugoslav federal currency superseded them.