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50 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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| Currency | Lira (1945-1954) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on recycled wartime paper stock, the face is enclosed within a border of laurel leaves and berries. The denomination numeral 50 appears within a Yugoslav coat of arms surmounted by a five-pointed star. Serial numbers are printed in either black or red ink, two distinct variants being known. |
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| Protection description | The note is printed on surplus paper stock remaining from the wartime Croatian State Printing House production of 20 and 50 Kuna 1944 banknotes, retaining the original paper's watermark. |
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The Free Territory of Trieste never functioned as a coherent monetary unit — Zone B, administered by Yugoslavia, operated essentially as an extension of the Yugoslav state while nominally maintaining separate instruments. This note was issued by the Economic Bank for Istria, Rijeka, and the Slovenian Littoral, an institution created to absorb the financial infrastructure left behind after Italian administration collapsed and before the territory's final absorption into Yugoslavia in 1954.
HDT in Zagreb handled the print run — the same state press producing currency and official documents for the new Yugoslav government simultaneously. The watermark is the sole security feature, modest even by postwar provisional standards.