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500 000 000 Dinara
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A vignette of a peasant woman appears to the left, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. The monogram of the Narodna Banka Jugoslavije is positioned at center, accompanied by the bank's full title in Cyrillic and Latin scripts. The engraver's credits appear in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Poljoprivredni Fakultet (Faculty of Agriculture) in Belgrade, a neoclassical building rendered with fine architectural detail. The denomination numeral 500 000 000 appears in large bold figures at lower right, with the written value in Cyrillic and Latin script below. The issuer's name ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА / JUGOSLAVIJA is inscribed at upper right, with the Governor's signature and place-date БЕОГРАД 1993. BEOGRAD at lower left. |
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By the time this note was issued in 1993, Yugoslav hyperinflation had already rendered lower denominations functionally worthless. The dinar was losing value faster than the government could print replacements — the National Bank's own printing facility in Belgrade was running presses around the clock, producing denominations that became obsolete within days of release. A 500 million dinar note was not an outlier; it was a logical step in a sequence that would eventually reach hundreds of billions before the 1994 redenomination stripped ten zeros from the currency in a single administrative stroke.
Pick 125 carries only a watermark as its security feature — a measure that offered little protection when the real threat was not counterfeiting but collapse.