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Menica Bill of Exchange 10,000-50,000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Size | 175 x 90 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed bill of exchange form in red and yellow on cream paper, with the SFRY state coat of arms (torch with flames above crossed grain, torch dated 29-XI-1941) appearing twice as underprint vignettes. The left panel carries the quadrilingual country title and the large numeral '50' denomination; the body contains multilingual payment fields in Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Macedonian, with horizontal red guilloche bands across the fill-in areas. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, showing only faint bleed-through of the obverse printing visible through the thin paper stock. |
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A "menica" is technically a bill of exchange rather than a banknote — a commercial instrument adapted for monetary circulation during Yugoslavia's postwar inflationary periods, when the National Bank periodically used such instruments to manage liquidity outside the standard note issue framework. The denomination range of 10,000 to 50,000 dinara signals this was almost certainly a product of one of the dinar's several severe devaluations, likely the early 1990s hyperinflationary collapse that eventually required replacement currencies entirely.
Without confirmed catalog data, the precise issue date and series cannot be stated with confidence here.