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5 German Marks PBT DD Travnik
| Issuer | Privredna Banka Travnik DD (Commercial Bank of Travnik, Joint-stock Company) |
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| Currency | German Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | P B T DD TRAVNIK 5,00 DEM 5,00 DEM No. {serial} |
| Reverse description | Plain white card stock reverse with show-through of the obverse guilloche underprint visible in the centre. Two circular rubber stamps in purple ink are applied toward the upper right: one fully legible bearing the full bank name around the circumference, the other a partial blind impression. |
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Privredna Banka Travnik was one of several small regional joint-stock banks in Bosnia-Hercegovina that issued emergency low-denomination notes — Notgeld in function if not always in name — during the economic disruptions of the early 1920s. The Travnik series circulated locally as fractional currency when coin shortages made small transactions impractical, a problem endemic across the former Habsburg territories following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone system.
The denomination in German marks rather than dinars is the key detail here: it places this note in the brief window when multiple currencies circulated simultaneously in the region before Yugoslav monetary consolidation took firm hold.