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500 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | D. ANDRIĆ FEC. N. HRVANOVIĆ FEC N. HRVANOVIĆ SC. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large circular vignette of a mountainous alpine landscape with conifers in the foreground, printed in shades of blue-green intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The country name appears in the upper right in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts — 'SFR JUGOSLAVIJA / СФР ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА' — while the denomination '500' is rendered in large bold numerals at lower right, with the value spelled out in four Yugoslav languages below. The names of the six constituent republics run vertically along the left and right borders, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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By 1990, Yugoslav inflation was accelerating toward catastrophe — the 500 Dinar note was already losing practical value faster than the ink dried. Within months, the Ante Marković government's January 1990 monetary reform had redenominated the currency at 10,000 old Dinara to 1 new Dinar, rendering the entire preceding series obsolete almost immediately. This note belongs to that brief, chaotic window before redenomination took hold.
ZIN in Belgrade handled the full production run in-house, with engraving split between Hrvanović on the obverse and Obradović and Medecijan on the reverse — an unusual division for a single-denomination issue.