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1000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Federativne Narodne Republike Jugoslavije (National Bank of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1955 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the central vignette of a male industrial worker (hardwareman), rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. A plate number 2 appears in the lower right corner, though examples without this number also exist. The issuing authority inscription runs along the upper border, with the denomination stated in multiple Yugoslav languages across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | NARODNA BANKA FEDERATIVNE NARODNE REPUBLIKE JUGOSLAVIJE 1000 ДИНАРA DINARA DINARJEV ДИНАРИ ZAVOD ZA IZRADU NOVČANICA NARODNE BANKE FNRJ |
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By 1955, Yugoslavia was navigating its own monetary path — outside the Soviet bloc after the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, and gradually opening toward Western credit arrangements. The 1000 Dinar denomination was the highest face value in this series, a note that saw real commercial use in a period of controlled but functioning domestic market activity.
Kocmut's engraving work for ZIN was among the most technically accomplished produced domestically in postwar Yugoslavia. The note was not farmed out to De La Rue or Bradbury Wilkinson, as many earlier Yugoslav issues had been — ZIN had by the mid-1950s developed sufficient in-house capability to handle the full print run.