5 Lira

Denarni Zavod Slovenije — the Monetary Institute of Slovenia — was established by the Liberation Front in 1944 to provide the Slovenian Partisan administration with its own currency infrastructure, independent of both German occupation money and Italian wartime instruments. This 5 Lira note is among the earliest emissions from that authority, printed under extraordinary clandestine conditions in occupied territory.

Printing inside Slovenia during active occupation meant these notes were produced in secrecy, with limited materials and constant operational risk. That origin is the reason the production quality is notably crude relative to contemporary issues from exile governments printing abroad.