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| Issuer | Narodna Banka Srbije (National Bank of Serbia) |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Central portrait vignette of Đorđe Vajfert at left-centre, with an architectural vignette of Vajfert's beer brewery rendered in fine intaglio linework in the background. A kinegram (holographic foil strip) bearing an image of Saint Đorđe slaying a dragon is applied vertically at the right side, with guilloche underprint patterns throughout in warm ochre and brown tones. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 БЕОГРАД - BEOGRAD година - 2003 - godina ГУВЕРНЕР - GUVERNER НАРОДНА БАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ЗАВОД ЗА ИЗРАДУ НОВЧАНИЦА И КОВАНОГ НОВЦА - ТОПЧИДЕР хиљаду динара hiljadu dinara NARODNA BANKA SRBIJE - ZAVOD ZA IZRADU NOVČANICA I KOVANOG NOVCA - TOPČIDER (Translation: 1000 BELGRADE - BELGRADE year - 2003 - year GOVERNOR - GOVERNOR NATIONAL BANK OF SERBIA - INSTITUTE FOR COIN AND BANKNOTE MANUFACTURING - TOPCIDER one thousand dinara one thousand dinara 1000 NATIONAL BANK OF SERBIA - INSTITUTE FOR COIN AND BANKNOTE MANUFACTURING - TOPCIDER) |
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Serbia's transition-era banknotes were produced domestically by ZIN throughout the turbulent 1990s and into the post-Milošević period, a point of institutional continuity that the National Bank actively emphasized. The 2003 1000 Dinara falls in the first years after the dinar's redenomination — the "novi dinar" had replaced the old at a ratio of one to one million in 1994, and the currency was still rebuilding public trust when this note entered circulation.
Mladjan Dinkić, whose signature appears here, served as NBS Governor from 2000 to 2003 before moving into government as Minister of Finance — an unusually fast pivot that reflected the compressed political tempo of post-2000 Serbia.