Catalog
50 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Republike Srpske Krajine (National Bank of the Republic of Serbian Krajina) |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА БАНКА РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРПСКЕ КРАЈИНЕ 50000 ПЕДЕСЕТ ХИЉАДА ДИНАРА ГУВЕРНЕР КНИН 1993. ФАЛСИФИКОВАЊЕ СЕ КАЖЊАВА ПО ЗАКОНУ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and yellow-ochre tones, with the bank title in Latin script at upper right above a vignette of the Serbian Krajina coat of arms — a double-headed eagle with a cross-bearing shield and four Cyrillic C motifs — framed within a ruled border. To the left, a large abstract multicolour guilloche rosette in brown, yellow, and white occupies the centre of the field, with the serial number in red and the place and year 'KNIN 1993.' printed at lower left. The denomination '50000 PEDESET HILJADA DINARA' appears in a panel along the lower border, and the anti-counterfeiting legend runs vertically along the left margin. |
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The Republic of Serbian Krajina was a self-declared Serb entity within Croatian territory, unrecognized internationally and economically dependent on Belgrade from the start. Its banknotes were printed at ZIN in Belgrade — the same facility producing Yugoslav federal issues — which tells you everything about the nature of that "independence." The Krajina dinar was pegged informally to the Yugoslav dinar and subject to the same catastrophic hyperinflation Belgrade was exporting across the region in 1993.
With over twelve million printed, scarcity is not the story here. The entity itself ceased to exist in August 1995 when Croatian forces overran the territory in Operation Storm, rendering the entire currency worthless within days of the offensive.