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1000 lira
| Issuer | Hranilnica Ljubljanske Pokrajine (Sparkasse der Provinz Laibach) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 1000 Lira |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. To the left, an oval vignette portrays a young Slovenian woman in traditional folk costume with an embroidered headdress and pearl necklace, set within an ornate lace-patterned border. The centre carries the bilingual title DENARNA NAKAZNICA above the large numeral denomination 1000 / LIR TISOC within a decorative cartouche, flanked by a block of Slovenian-language text referencing the issuing authority and dated 14. IX. 1944, with the issuer's name HRANILNICA LJUBLJANSKE POKRAJINE printed below, accompanied by two manuscript signatures above the titles Predsednik and Glavni ravnatelj. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the general layout of the obverse in warm brown tones on a guilloche underprint, with the German-language title GELDANWEISUNG ÜBER at the top and the denomination 1000 / LIRE TAUSEND within a matching ornamental cartouche at centre. To the left, a rectangular panel contains a pale watermark-style Carniolan eagle, while to the right an oval vignette repeats the portrait of the folk-costumed woman within the embroidered border; a block of German text sets out the redemption conditions referencing the Banca d'Italia and the Provinzialverwaltung in Laibach, dated 14. IX. 1944, with the issuer styled SPARKASSE DER PROVINZ LAIBACH and two manuscript signatures beneath the titles Vorsitzender and Generaldirektor. |
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This note was issued by the Sparkasse der Provinz Laibach — the savings bank of the Italian-administered Province of Ljubljana — during the German occupation period that followed Italy's armistice in September 1943. The province had been under Italian civil administration since 1941; after the armistice, German forces moved in and the existing banking infrastructure was kept nominally functional under new oversight. The 1944 issue was a practical response to a genuine currency vacuum rather than any orderly monetary planning.
Janez Trpin's design credit is unusual — local artistic involvement in wartime occupation currency was rare, and the note stands among very few examples from Yugoslav territory where a Slovenian designer is specifically credited. Pick lists it under R9, the "R" prefix itself signaling recognized rarity within the standard catalog structure.