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5000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Printer | Serbian state printer (ZIN - Zavod za izradu novčanica i kovanog novca), Beograd, Serbia (1929-date) |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an engraved panoramic view of the historic Mehmed-Paša Sokolović bridge spanning the Drina river at Višegrad, its eleven stone arches reflected in the calm water below, with the town and surrounding hillside rendered in fine intaglio line work. The denomination numeral "5000" appears in large figures at the lower right, accompanied by the bilingual inscription "ПЕТ ХИЉАДА ДИНАРА / PET HILJADA DINARA". The issuer's name in Cyrillic and Latin is printed at upper right, with the place and date "БЕОГРАД 1992. BEOGRAD" at lower left alongside the Governor's signature. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Watermark |
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By the time this note was issued in 1992, Yugoslavia's hyperinflationary spiral was already well underway — what had been a manageable inflation problem in the late 1980s was accelerating toward the catastrophic 1993–94 episode that would eventually produce the 500 billion dinar note. The 5000 dinar denomination, substantial on paper, was losing purchasing power faster than the ink could dry. ZIN, the Belgrade state printer, was running shifts around the clock to keep pace with monetary demand that fiscal policy had completely lost control of.
Dragiša Andrić handled both design and obverse engraving — an unusual dual credit that suggests tight production timelines left little room for the typical division of labor.