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50 Litara JNA, Dizel
| Issuer | Jugoslavenska Narodna Armija (JNA) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow ground with dark guilloche border frame. Central vignette shows the JNA emblem: a red five-pointed star with crossed rifles and laurel wreath, bearing the inscription JNA. Bilingual legends in Latin and Cyrillic scripts appear flanking the vignette, with the denomination and anti-counterfeiting warning in four languages along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse, unprinted, showing bleed-through impression of the obverse design visible in raking light. |
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The Jugoslavenska Narodna Armija operated its own internal scrip system — canteen currency usable only within military facilities, disconnected from the civilian dinar economy entirely. The "Dizel" designation on this 50 Litara note refers not to fuel in any literal sense but to a specific category of military canteen token used for particular goods or services, a bureaucratic subdivision that varied by garrison and period.
JNA scrip of this type rarely left the base. Most was destroyed during demobilization or simply discarded after Yugoslavia's dissolution in the early 1990s, which is the primary reason surviving pieces attract collector attention disproportionate to their face value.