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500 Dinara Croatian Red Cross
| Issuer | Hrvatski Crveni Križ (Croatian Red Cross) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow ground with white denomination numerals '500' and 'dinara' repeated at each corner in rotated orientation. Central vignette comprises a circular Red Cross emblem in red and white, with the inscription 'SABIRNA AKCIJA' arched above and 'SOLIDARNOST NA DJELU' along the lower arc, all in Latin script. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper, unprinted, bearing a hand-applied circular red ink stamp in the lower left quadrant with a Red Cross motif at centre and surrounding Cyrillic/Latin text reading 'CRVENI KRIŽ' and 'CENTAR' with further organizational text, applied as a validation or distribution mark. |
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The Croatian Red Cross issued emergency paper money during the extreme monetary chaos of 1991–1992, when the Croatian dinar itself was barely functional and local communities, municipalities, and even charitable organizations briefly stepped in with their own scrip. These notes were not legal tender in any conventional sense — their actual role in circulation remains debated among collectors, with some attributing them to fundraising rather than genuine transactional use.
Provenance is the real difficulty here. Documentation on exact issuance conditions, quantities printed, and redemption terms is sparse, which makes authentication of purportedly circulated examples genuinely uncertain.