Catalog
500 Denari
| Issuer | National Bank of Macedonia |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 500 Denars (500 денари) |
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| Obverse lettering | СКОПЈЕ 1992 ГОДИНА ФАЛСИФИКУВАЊЕТО СЕ КАЗНУВА СПОРЕД ЗАКОНОТ НАРОДНА БАНКА НА МАКЕДОНИЈА ПЕТСТОТИНИ 500 (Translation: Skopje year 1992, Falsification is punishable by law, National Bank of Macedonia, Five Hundred) |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a vignette of the Makedonium monument in Kruševo, the distinctive modernist memorial erected to commemorate the Ilinden Uprising, its bold sculptural form rendered against a plain ground. Cyrillic inscriptions identify the state name and repeat the denomination in both numeral and word form. The overall layout is spare, with the architectural subject occupying the central field. |
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Macedonia's first post-independence banknote series was issued while the country was still navigating a disputed international status — the European Community had not yet recognized it, and the United Nations admission in 1993 required the provisional name "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." The 500 Denari sits at the top of that inaugural series, introduced as the denar replaced the Yugoslav dinar at par following the July 1992 monetary separation.
The series was printed by the French security printer François-Charles Oberthur, one of the few Western firms with capacity to accommodate a newly independent state on short notice.