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50 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Republike Srpske Krajine (National Bank of the Republic of Serbian Krajina) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | October dinar (1993) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and red on a light ground, with a central intaglio vignette of Knin Fortress rendered in fine engraved detail against a guilloche underprint. The issuing authority's name, НАРОДНА БАНКА РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРПСКЕ КРАЈИНЕ, appears in two lines at the top, while the denomination numerals 50000 are repeated at lower left and within a red guilloche rosette at lower right. A decorative guilloche rosette occupies the left margin, and the Governor's facsimile signature with the Cyrillic title ГУВЕРНЕР, the place-name КНИН, and the year 1993 are printed in the right border area alongside the vertical denomination text ПЕДЕСЕТ ХИЉАДА ДИНАРА. |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА БАНКА РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРПСКЕ КРАЈИНЕ ПЕДЕСЕТ ХИЉАДА ДИНАРА ГУВЕРНЕР КНИН 1993. Фалсификовање се кажњава по закону (Translation: People's Bank of the Republic of Srpska Krajina Fifty Thousand Dinars Governor Knin 1993. Falsification is punishable by law) |
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The Republic of Serbian Krajina was a self-declared Serb statelet carved out of Croatian territory during the Yugoslav wars, never recognized by any foreign government. Its central bank was effectively a satellite operation — this note was printed at the ZIN facility in Belgrade, meaning the rump Croatian-Serb administration relied entirely on Serbian state infrastructure for its money supply, a dependency that left its monetary policy, such as it was, wholly subordinate to Belgrade's.
The series was issued into hyperinflationary conditions that rendered high denominations like this obsolete within weeks of printing.