Catalog
5 Marks Opština Goražde
| Issuer | Opština Goražde (Municipality of Goražde) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on pale yellow paper, the obverse is a wartime emergency currency voucher (devizni bon) issued by the Municipality of Goražde. A central vignette presents a stylized emblem within a rectangular cartouche, flanked on either side by ornamental scroll frames enclosing the numeral 5 and the word PET. The serial number is printed in red at upper right, with authority inscriptions in Cyrillic-Latin script across the top and two manuscript signatures with official titles at the lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, printed on unadorned paper with a faint circular official stamp impression visible at left center. A mirror-image bleed-through of the obverse serial number appears in red at upper left, a consequence of the basic printing method used for this emergency issue. |
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Goražde was one of six UN-designated safe areas during the Bosnian War, and one of the most besieged. Cut off from Sarajevo and under sustained Serbian artillery fire through much of 1993 and 1994, the town's municipal authorities issued their own emergency scrip when federal Yugoslav dinars and later Bosnian currency became impossible to obtain in usable quantities. These local emissions — Goražde among the most extreme examples — functioned as internal vouchers rather than banknotes in any formal sense, circulating within a population that was simultaneously under sniper fire and facing acute food shortages.
Condition on surviving examples varies sharply. Notes that stayed in the enclave often show hard use; those smuggled out early are sometimes found cleaner.