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100 Lira Free Territory of Trieste - zone B
| Issuer | Gospodarska banka za Istru Rijeku i Slovensko Primorje (Economic Bank for Istria, Rijeka and the Slovenian Littoral) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 100 Lira |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue letterpress printing on recycled wartime paper stock, with a decorative border of foliate scrollwork incorporating stylised leaves and flowers. The denomination numeral 100 appears within a Yugoslav coat of arms surmounted by a five-pointed star, set centrally on the face. Trilingual bank titles in Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and Italian are arranged across the note. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette shows a sailboat at sea with two birds in flight, enclosed within a ruled rectangular frame; the sail bears a red partisan five-pointed star. The trilingual anti-counterfeiting warning is printed in three horizontal bands beneath the vignette. |
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The Free Territory of Trieste never truly functioned as a unified entity — Zone A fell under Anglo-American administration while Zone B, covering the Istrian hinterland and part of the Slovenian coast, came under Yugoslav military control. This note was issued to serve Zone B's economy, effectively integrating it into the Yugoslav financial sphere before any formal postwar settlement had been reached. The issuing bank's full name alone signals the agenda: Rijeka and the Slovenian Littoral were being administratively absorbed, not held in neutral suspension.
Printed in Zagreb by the Croatian State Printing Office, the note predates the formal proclamation of the Free Territory itself, which wasn't established until 1947 — making the "Zone B" designation on a 1945 issue a product of military occupation policy rather than any ratified international arrangement.