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100 Hrvatskih Dinara Croatian Red Cross

Issuer Crveni Križ Zagreb (Red Cross Zagreb)
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Type Vouchers
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Obverse description Cream paper with a torn-scroll vignette border in dark letterpress. At left, the Red Cross Zagreb emblem — a red cross superimposed on a dark stylised dove — above the inscription ZAGREB and a red serial number. To the right, bold letterpress text states BON ZAHVALNOSTI and the denomination 100 HRD in red, with the collection campaign legend below.
Obverse lettering CRVENI KRIŽ
ZAGREB
No. 104887
BON ZAHVALNOSTI
100 HRD
SABIRNA AKCIJA
»ZAGREPČANI ZAGREPČANIMA«
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Croatia's Red Cross in Zagreb issued emergency scrip denominated in "Hrvatski Dinari" — Croatian Dinars — a politically loaded choice of unit during a period when Croatian national identity was being aggressively suppressed under Yugoslav centralism. Whether this was administrative habit or quiet assertion is genuinely unclear from surviving documentation.

Red Cross emergency notes occupy an awkward taxonomic space: neither state currency nor purely private token, they circulated where official money was absent or mistrusted. Zagreb examples from this organization are sparsely documented in major catalogs, which makes condition assessment and attribution difficult without accompanying provenance.

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