5000 Dinara

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.