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1000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Printer | Serbian state printer (ZIN - Zavod za izradu novčanica i kovanog novca), Beograd, Serbia (1929-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and purple intaglio note with a large portrait vignette of Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) at left, rendered in fine line engraving. The Yugoslav state coat of arms — a torch-flame emblem within a circular guilloche — is set at centre-right against a geometric underprint of overlapping triangular forms. The denomination numeral 1000 is repeated at lower centre within an elaborate guilloche rosette, with the currency name inscribed in four languages below. |
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| Reverse description | Teal and blue-green note centred on an intaglio vignette of Tesla's high-frequency resonant transformer (Tesla coil), with dramatic electrical discharge arcs radiating outward from the coil in finely engraved lines. A diagonal geometric underprint in pale gold and teal provides depth behind the central vignette. The denomination 1000 appears in large numerals at lower right, with the place and date of issue — БЕОГРАД · VEOGRAD · BELGRAD 1991 — printed at lower left, above the Governor's facsimile signature. |
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Yugoslavia's hyperinflation accelerated sharply through 1991 and into 1992, rendering high-denomination notes obsolete almost immediately after issue. This 1000 Dinara entered circulation just as the federal state was fracturing politically — Slovenia and Croatia declared independence in June 1991, and the dinar's collapse was as much a symptom of that disintegration as of monetary mismanagement. ZIN in Belgrade continued printing at volume, but the notes were losing purchasing power faster than they could be distributed.
Dragiša Andrić handling both design and obverse engraving on the same note is relatively uncommon in Yugoslav production — most issues divided those roles.