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500 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Kraljevine Jugoslavije |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | НАРОДНА БАНКА КРАЉЕВИНЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ ПЕТ СТОТИНА ДИНАРА 500 ЗА НАДЗОРНИ ВЛАСТ ГУВЕРНЕР НАРОДНЕ БАНКЕ |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in brown, presents a panoramic landscape vignette of an industrial scene with factory buildings and smokestacks set against a mountain backdrop, flanked on the right by a large rocky cliff face. The country name 'KRALJEVINA JUGOSLAVIJA' is inscribed in Latin script across the top, while the denomination '500' appears in the lower left and right corners with 'PET STOTINA DINARA' on a central cartouche. Decorative guilloche borders and geometric ornamental bands run along the upper and lower edges. |
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Pick 35E belongs to a series issued by the Royal Yugoslav government-in-exile in London, with printing handled by De La Rue. By 1943, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia existed on paper only — the territory was carved between the Axis occupiers and their proxy administrations, and these notes were prepared in anticipation of liberation and postwar restoration of the monarchy.
That restoration never came. The communist-led Partisans emerged victorious, and the entire London-printed series was rendered politically obsolete before it could meaningfully circulate. Survivor quantities depend heavily on which consignments reached Yugoslav soil and which remained in storage abroad.