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NBS-ZIN Test Note 80 years
| Issuer | National Bank of Serbia |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NATIONAL BANK OF SERBIA 80 YEARS NO VALUE SPECIMEN ZIN 1929-2009 THE INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING BANKNOTES AND COINS |
| Reverse description | The upper portion carries an engraved vignette of the ZIN building facade in a linear architectural style, flanked left by the stylised ZIN logo in green and the large "80 YEARS" numeral in gold-brown. The central field presents three overlapping portrait vignettes of ZIN's founding master engravers against a multicolour guilloche underprint, with facsimile signatures beneath each portrait. The bold ZIN logotype in intaglio anchors the lower centre above the issuer inscriptions. |
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In 2009, the National Bank of Serbia issued this note through ZIN — the state security printing works in Belgrade — to mark eighty years of domestic banknote production. ZIN was established in 1929, ending Serbia's longstanding reliance on foreign printers such as the American Bank Note Company and various European firms that had produced Yugoslav currency for decades. A commemorative test note of this kind is primarily a technical and institutional document: it demonstrates current production capability and security feature implementation rather than entering circulation.
The watermark is the only declared security feature, modest by modern standards, which itself may be the point — test notes are typically internal showpieces, not full production runs.