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500 Lira Free Territory of Trieste - zone B
| Issuer | Gospodarska banka za Istru, Rijeku i Slovensko Primorje (Economic Bank for Istria, Rijeka and the Slovenian Littoral) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 500 Lira |
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| Obverse description | Note printed in green and yellow, with a border of laurel leaves and berries enclosing the design. The large numeral 500 is set within a Yugoslav coat of arms bearing a five-pointed star. The trilingual bank title appears in Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and Italian, with the year 1945 below. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a sailboat at sea, enclosed within a rectangular frame; the sail bears a red five-pointed partisan star, emblematic of the Yugoslav liberation movement. The anti-counterfeiting warning appears in three languages along the lower margin. |
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Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste was administered by Yugoslavia, and this note reflects that reality despite its Italian-language denomination. The issuing bank was a Yugoslav institution projecting administrative control over a contested strip of the Adriatic coast — the name itself staking a territorial claim across three regions whose political fate wouldn't be formally settled until the 1954 London Memorandum.
Printed in Zagreb by the Croatian State Printing Office in 1945, the note predates the formal proclamation of the Free Territory itself, which wasn't established until 1947 under the Paris Peace Treaties. That timing makes it an instrument of provisional occupation rather than recognized governance.