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5 Lira Free Territory of Trieste - zone B
| Issuer | Gospodarska banka za Istru, Rijeku i Slovensko Primorje |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 LIRA / LIR / LIRE Gospodarska banka za Istru Rijeku i Slovensko Primorje Gospodarska banka za Istro Reko in Slovensko Primorje Banca per l`Economica per l`Istria Fiume e il Littorale Sloveno 1945 (Translation: 5 Liras Economic bank for Istria Rijeka and Slovenian Coast) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 LIRA / LIR / LIRE Krivotvorenje se kažnjava po zakonu Ponarejanje se kaznuje po zakonu La legge punisce i falsificatori (Translation: 5 Liras Counterfeiting is punishable by law) |
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The Free Territory of Trieste never fully cohered as a political entity, and Zone B — administered by Yugoslavia — issued its own scrip almost immediately, bypassing the joint governance framework before the ink on the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties had dried. This note was produced by the Croatian State Printing Office in Zagreb, making it a Yugoslav instrument dressed in the language of an ostensibly international territory.
The issuing bank's name — encompassing Istria, Rijeka, and the Slovenian Littoral — signals the broader Yugoslav territorial ambition in the region, which was eventually confirmed when Zone B was formally absorbed into Yugoslavia in 1954 following the London Memorandum.