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4.000 Lir
| Issuer | Narodni Osvobodilni Svet za Primorsko Slovenijo (National Liberation Committee for the Slovenian Coast) |
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| Year | 1944-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset receipt-style document on white paper, with the header inscription NARODNI OSVOBODILNI SVET ZA PRIMORSKO SLOVENIJO in letterpress at upper left, and the title Potrdilo (Receipt) centered at top. The body of the note is handwritten in ink, certifying payment of 4,000 lire as a loan of freedom (posojilo svobode), with manuscript entries for the payee name and amount in words; a series designation and serial number 00331 appear at upper right. Three signature lines for Predsednik (President), Tajnik (Secretary), and Podpredsednik (Vice-President), together with a Pooblaščenec (Authorized signatory) line, are filled in by hand, and the date Dne 31. V. 1944 is inscribed at lower center. |
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| Obverse lettering | NARODNI OSVOBODILNI SVET ZA PRIMORSKO SLOVENIJO Potrdilo Serija Številka 00331 Petjrujemo, da je tov. Tone Gervanje vplačal(a) danes znesek lir 4.000.- z besedami štiristo kot posojilo svobode. Predsednik: Tajnik: Podpredsednik: Dne 31. V. 1944 Pooblaščenec: Posojilo svobode je razpisal Izvršni tabor Osvobodilne fronte slovenskega naroda in se vrne po dokončni osvoboditvi po podrobnejših predpisih v takrat veljavni valuti. |
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The National Liberation Committee for the Slovenian Coast issued these notes as a wartime parallel currency in the territory contested between Axis occupation forces and Yugoslav Partisan resistance. The Slovenian Littoral — long disputed between Italy and Yugoslavia — was under German military administration following Italy's 1943 armistice, and the Partisans needed a functioning medium of exchange to sustain their administrative and logistical operations in the region.
The 4,000 Lira denomination is an unusual figure by any standard, chosen to match the purchasing realities of wartime inflation rather than any conventional monetary logic. Notes from this committee are rarely encountered in quantity; production was improvised and distribution was necessarily clandestine.