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500 Dinara Petrolunion, Belgrade
| Issuer | Petrolunion, Belgrade |
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| Size | 140 x 50 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | POSLOVNA ZAJEDNICA Petrolunion BEOGRAD SARAJEVO BON ZA KUPOVINU BENZINA I DIZEL GORIVA u vrednosti od pet stotina dinara 500 OVAJ BON VAŽI NA PODRUČJU SFRJ FALSIFIKOVANJE SE KAŽNJAVA PO ZAKONU ŠTAMPAO ZAVOD ZA IZRADU NOVČANICA (Translation: BUSINESS COMMUNITY Petrolunion BELGRADE SARAJEVO VOUCHER FOR THE PURCHASE OF PETROL AND DIESEL FUEL in the value of five hundred dinars 500 THIS VOUCHER IS VALID ON THE TERRITORY OF THE SFRY FALSIFYING IS PUNISHABLE BY LAW PRINTED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING BANKNOTES) |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper with show-through of the obverse printing visible in mirror image, including the EP logo and serial number; no distinct reverse design elements are present. |
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Petrolunion was a Yugoslav petroleum company, and this note is a corporate scrip token — issued not by any bank or government authority but by an enterprise for internal use, almost certainly as a fuel or payment voucher for employees or affiliated businesses. Such pieces occupy an awkward taxonomic space: not quite a banknote, not quite an ordinary trade token, but catalogued here because ZIN produced it on proper banknote paper using the same equipment and security printing methods it applied to official Yugoslav currency.
ZIN's involvement is the detail worth noting. The state printer taking private commissions for corporate scrip was not unusual in Yugoslav practice, but it gave pieces like this a deceptive weight of official authority they did not legally possess.