The "OOUR" designation places this note squarely within Yugoslavia's experiment with self-management socialism — Osnovna Organizacija Udruženog Rada, the basic organization of associated labor, was the legally recognized economic unit under the 1974 constitution. These workplace-issued notes, sometimes called "bonovi," functioned as internal scrip, circulating among workers and accepted at enterprise canteens, shops, and cooperating local businesses rather than through the national banking system.
Samobor, a small town west of Zagreb, had a sufficiently developed local manufacturing base to support this kind of parallel exchange. The "Lavica" enterprise name suggests a specific production unit operating under the broader OOUR framework. Yugoslav bonovi of this type were never catalogued systematically during their period of use, which makes attribution and dating genuinely difficult.
The "OOUR" designation places this note squarely within Yugoslavia's experiment with self-management socialism — Osnovna Organizacija Udruženog Rada, the basic organization of associated labor, was the legally recognized economic unit under the 1974 constitution. These workplace-issued notes, sometimes called "bonovi," functioned as internal scrip, circulating among workers and accepted at enterprise canteens, shops, and cooperating local businesses rather than through the national banking system.
Samobor, a small town west of Zagreb, had a sufficiently developed local manufacturing base to support this kind of parallel exchange. The "Lavica" enterprise name suggests a specific production unit operating under the broader OOUR framework. Yugoslav bonovi of this type were never catalogued systematically during their period of use, which makes attribution and dating genuinely difficult.