Catalog
100 Lir Yugoslav partisans
| Issuer | Denarni Zavod Slovenije (Monetary Institute of Slovenia) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 100 Lir |
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| Obverse description | Brown and olive letterpress note with a symmetrical composition centred on the large bold inscription STO LIR, flanked left and right by circular guilloche rosettes each enclosing the numeral 100. The heading bears the three-line authority text DENARNI ZAVOD SLOVENIJE / PRI PREDSEDSTVU SNOS / PLAČA, followed by the redemption clause OB IZDAJI ENOTNEGA DRŽAVNEGA DENARJA PRINOSITELJU TEGA BONA. Below the central denomination, two manuscript signatures appear under the printed titles BLAGAJNIK and PREDSEDNIK, separated by a small circular emblem incorporating a red star above a stylised mountain and water motif. |
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| Reverse lettering | STO LIR 100 ODLOK PREDSEDSTVA SNOS O POOBLASTITVI DENARNEGA ZAVODA SLOVENIJE PRI PREDSEDSTVU SNOS ZA IZDAJO PLAČILNIH BONOV Z DNE 12·III·1944 V ZV. Z ODLOKOM SNOS O IZDAJI PLAČ. BONA Z DNE 20·II·1944 |
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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 Few notes saw extended circulation before Yugoslav federal currency superseded them.