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Business trip ration coupon Ministarstvo trgovine i snabdevanja FNRJ
| Issuer | Ministarstvo trgovine i snabdevanja FNRJ (Ministry of Trade and Supply of the FPRY) |
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| Year | 1971 |
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| Size | 100 x 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-blue coupon printed in dark blue letterpress, issued by the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the FPRY. The upper half contains pre-printed fields for institution name, serial and travel-order numbers, date, and location, filled in manuscript and bearing a circular official stamp. The lower half is divided into three columns for DORUČAK (breakfast), VEČERA (dinner), and RUČAK (lunch), each with a date-of-use field and issuing-institution stamp area. |
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| Obverse lettering | MINISTARSTVO TRGOVINE I SNABDEVANJA FNRJ (preduzeće — ustanova) Red. br. (Knjige izdavanja karata) Br. (putnog naloga) 19 g. u (žig) (potpis) DORUČAK za službeno putovanje 19 g. (Datum korišćenja) (Žig) preduzeća koje izdaje kartu VEČERA za službeno putovanje 19 g. (Datum korišćenja) (Žig) preduzeća koje izdaje kartu RUČAK za službeno putovanje 19 g. (Datum korišćenja) (Žig) preduzeća koje izdaje kartu |
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Yugoslavia's postwar rationing apparatus formally wound down in the early 1950s, but the Ministry of Trade and Supply continued issuing supplemental coupons for state-approved travel well into the 1960s and beyond — this piece being a late example of that bureaucratic inertia. Business travelers on official assignments received ration booklets entitling them to meals and goods at designated state establishments, bypassing the dinar cash economy in contexts where price controls made direct payment administratively inconvenient.
The ministry itself was dissolved and reconstituted several times as Yugoslavia's federal structure shifted; by 1971 its functions were increasingly devolved to the republic level, making central FNRJ-branded issue documents a bureaucratic anachronism.