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| Issuer | Narodna Banka Federativne Narodne Republike Jugoslavije |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Currency | Dinar (1920-1966) |
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| Reverse lettering | NARODNA BANKA FNR JUGOSLAVIJE FNR JUGOSLAVIJE СРБИЈА · ХРВАТСКА · СЛОВЕНИЈА БОСНА И ХЕРЦЕГОВИНА · МАКЕДОНИЈА · ЦРНА ГОРА 500 ШЕСТО ДИНАРА ПЕТСТОТИН ДИНАРИ ПЛАЋА ДОНОСИОЦУ ПЕТСТОТИНА ДИНАРА SPECIMEN |
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| Protection description | Watermark present in the paper; zero-serial specimen cancellation applied. |
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| Comments |
The 1953 Yugoslav 500 Dinara belongs to the first major postwar reissue cycle, introduced as the country was navigating its own economic path after Tito's break with the Cominform in 1948. Yugoslavia needed a functioning domestic monetary system entirely independent of Soviet influence — these notes were part of projecting that institutional self-sufficiency.
The trilingual denomination line — Dinara, Dinarjev, Dinari — reflects the Federation's constitutional balancing act between Serbian, Slovenian, and Macedonian linguistic communities. That detail alone dates the note politically as precisely as any serial prefix.