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1000 lira
| Issuer | Hranilnica Ljubljanske Pokrajine (Sparkasse der Provinz Laibach) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 1000 Lira |
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| Reverse lettering | GELDANWEISUNG ÜBER 1000 LIRE TAUSEND SPARKASSE DER PROVINZ LAIBACH Vorsitzender: Generaldirektor: Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note was issued by the Sparkasse der Provinz Laibach — the savings bank of the Italian-administered Province of Ljubljana — during the German occupation period that followed Italy's armistice in September 1943. The province had been under Italian civil administration since 1941; after the armistice, German forces moved in and the existing banking infrastructure was kept nominally functional under new oversight. The 1944 issue was a practical response to a genuine currency vacuum rather than any orderly monetary planning.
Janez Trpin's design credit is unusual — local artistic involvement in wartime occupation currency was rare, and the note stands among very few examples from Yugoslav territory where a Slovenian designer is specifically credited. Pick lists it under R9, the "R" prefix itself signaling recognized rarity within the standard catalog structure.