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300 Dinara Energopetrol voucher
| Issuer | Energopetrol, Sarajevo |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink ground with the issuer name ENERGOPETROL repeated as an all-over underprint in large letters. A dashed rectangular border frames the central text area, within which the denomination 300 flanked by the word dinara on each side is printed in bold, with the issuer name and city below. |
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| Obverse lettering | ABONENTNI BON dinara 300 dinara ENERGOPETROL — Sarajevo (Translation: SUBSCRIPTION VOUCHER dinara 300 dinara ENERGOPETROL — Sarajevo) |
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Energopetrol was a Sarajevo-based petroleum distributor operating under Yugoslavia's socialist self-management system, and fuel vouchers of this type were a practical workaround for the chronic supply irregularities that plagued the Yugoslav economy through the 1980s. They functioned as prepaid scrip redeemable at company pumps rather than currency proper, sitting in a grey zone between internal accounting instrument and quasi-monetary token.
The 300 Dinar denomination places this almost certainly in the late 1980s, when hyperinflation was accelerating and face values on everyday transactions were climbing rapidly. A voucher denominated in hundreds of dinars would have purchased a modest quantity of fuel one year and almost nothing the next.