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6000 Novih Dinara Chilandar
| Issuer | National Bank of Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1998-1999 |
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| Value | 6000 New Dinars (6000 нових динара) (6000 YUM) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylised architectural panorama of the Hilandar (Chilandar) Monastery on Mount Athos, rendered in fine relief with towers, domes, and fortified walls. The Cyrillic inscriptions МАНАСТИР (monastery) and ХИЛАНДАР (Hilandar) flank the monastery view to the left and right respectively. The Yugoslav state coat of arms — a double-headed eagle on a shield — appears in the upper centre of the field. The commemorative dates 1198 and 1998 mark the 800th anniversary of the monastery's founding, flanking an ornate Serbian cross motif at centre. The denomination 6000 НОВИХ ДИНАРА appears in the lower field, with the year 1999 inscribed vertically along the right inner border, and the circular legend САВЕЗНА РЕПУБЛИКА ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА running along the upper periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Issued in the final months before Yugoslavia's catastrophic hyperinflation rendered the dinar essentially worthless, this gold commemorative honored the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Chilandar on Mount Athos — founded in 1198 by Stefan Nemanja and his son Rastko, later canonized as Saint Sava. The National Bank issued it knowing full well that the face value of 6,000 dinars was already an abstraction; by mid-1999, the denomination was economically meaningless against the collapsing currency.
Chilandar remains one of the twenty ruling monasteries of the Athonite monastic republic and has been under Serbian stewardship for over eight centuries.