100 Lira Free Territory of Trieste - zone B

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.