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| Issuer | Banka Provizore e Republikës së Kosovës |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Prishtinë, 1 prill 1999 BANKA PROVIZORE E REPUBLIKËS SË KOSOVËS DHJETË 10 DINARË Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës (Translation: Prishtina, 1st April 1999, Provisional Bank of the Republic of Kosovo, Ten Dinars, Kosovo Liberation Army) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress overprint text in two Albanian dialect variants applied across the top and bottom margins of the base note reverse. The underlying blue guilloche design of the Macedonian 10 Denar note is visible, with the Ilinden memorial complex vignette at left and intricate rosette underprint at centre-right. The original Cyrillic issuer inscription is obscured by a solid black overprint bar. |
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The "Banka Provizore e Republikës së Kosovës" never functioned as a real central bank — it was a parallel institution operating within the Democratic League of Kosovo's shadow government structure during the 1990s, when Kosovo remained formally part of Yugoslavia. These notes were produced and circulated within that unofficial economy, not recognized by Belgrade or any international body. The Yugoslav dinar remained the legal tender; these were a political act as much as a monetary one.
TBB#101 is among the scarcest of the series. The watermark is the sole security feature — a thin concession to legitimacy from an issuer with limited means and no access to a state printing works.