Catalog
20 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 20 000 Dinars (20 000 динарa) (20 000 BAD) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOVČANI BON 20000 DINARA (Translation: CASH VOUCHER 20000 DINARS) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries an all-over guilloche pattern in lilac and blue tones, identical in layout to the face but without any handstamp or serial number. The large numeral '20000' is printed in magenta at centre, with 'NOVČANI BON' across the top and 'dinara' beneath the numeral. Ornamental rosette vignettes are placed at each corner. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina issued this note in 1992, the year the republic declared independence and immediately descended into war. The monetary infrastructure collapsed almost simultaneously — the Yugoslav dinar was being abandoned, new parallel currencies were appearing across the fractured region, and whatever printing capacity existed was stretched across urgent, overlapping demands. Notes from this period were often produced on whatever stock was available, and the thin, greasy paper composition of the P#52A is consistent with emergency procurement rather than standard banknote supply chains.
Survival rates for circulated examples are deceptively low given the note's youth — wartime inflation rendered high denominations like this one economically worthless within weeks of issue.