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25 Hrvatskih Dinara Croatian Red Cross
| Issuer | Hrvatski Crveni Križ (Croatian Red Cross) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink and white underprint with diagonal red and blue ribbon motifs of the Croatian flag. Central vignette shows the Croatian Red Cross circular emblem with a bold red cross, flanked left and right by two engraved coin-style medallions each bearing the numeral '25' over 'HRVATSKIH DINARA'. Slogan 'SOLIDARNOST NA DJELU' appears at lower right, with a serial number in an oval cartouche at centre bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper, otherwise blank, with a single red circular ink stamp applied to the left side. The stamp reads 'HRVATSKI CRVENI KRIŽ' and 'CRVENI KRIŽ ZAGREB' around the perimeter with the numeral '3' at centre. Bleed-through of the obverse serial number and lettering is visible in mirror image. |
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Croatian Red Cross emergency notes occupy an odd corner of notaphily — they function somewhere between scrip, charity coupon, and genuine circulating substitute currency. The Hrvatski Crveni Križ issues from the early 1990s were produced during the acute cash shortages that followed Croatian independence, when the Yugoslav dinar was collapsing and the Croatian dinar had not yet fully taken hold as a functional replacement.
Whether this particular piece saw genuine retail circulation or served primarily as a fundraising instrument redeemable through Red Cross channels remains contested among collectors of Yugoslav successor-state emergency issues.