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5 Lir Yugoslav partisans; second issue
| Issuer | Denarni Zavod Slovenije (Monetary Institute of Slovenia) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | DENARNI ZAVOD SLOVENIJE PRI PREDSEDSTVU SNOS PLAČA OB IZDAJI ENOTNEGA DR ŽAVNEGA DENARJA DONOSITELJU TEGA BONA PET LIR V TAKRATNI DRŽAVNI VALUTI BLAGAJNIK PREDSEDNIK |
| Reverse description | Blue and cream letterpress design with a large central cartouche in guilloche underprint bearing the inscription "PET LIR" in bold lettering. Denomination numeral "5" flanks the cartouche on each side. Authorising legal text runs along all four margins, with the bottom text printed inverted. |
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The Denarni Zavod Slovenije was established by the Liberation Front of Slovenia in 1944 to give the Partisan-controlled territories a functioning monetary authority independent of both the Italian occupation lira and the German-backed kuna. That a Slovenian Partisan institution had its emergency currency printed by the Serbian state printer in Belgrade — ZIN — says something about the coordination achieved within the Yugoslav resistance movement even before liberation was complete.
The second issue designation distinguishes it from an earlier, more crudely produced run. ZIN's involvement brought a measurably higher printing standard to what was, functionally, wartime scrip.