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5 000 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Srpske Republike Bosne i Hercegovine |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown on light blue and yellow-orange underprint. The obverse bears the bank title in Cyrillic across the upper right, with a large abstract guilloche vignette occupying the central field and the Serbian national arms — a double-headed eagle within a shield — at right. The denomination numeral appears in a decorative heart-shaped guilloche panel at upper left, with serial number and place-date inscription at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large, elaborate curved abstract guilloche vignette at centre left, rendered in blue and brown tones against a finely cross-hatched underprint. The Serbian state arms appear at right, and the denomination legend '5000000 PET MILIONA DINARA' is set in bold lettering across the lower right panel within a dark horizontal band. |
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The Narodna Banka Srpske Republike Bosne i Hercegovine — the central bank of the Republika Srpska entity during the Bosnian War — issued this note as hyperinflation was actively destroying the dinar's purchasing power. By mid-1993, Yugoslav successor currencies were losing value faster than new denominations could be designed and distributed. ZIN in Belgrade handled production, which was logistically straightforward given the political alignment between Pale and Belgrade at the time.
The five-million denomination tells you everything about the monetary situation: it was effectively small change within months of issue.