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500 Dinarë
| Issuer | Banka Provizore e Republikës së Kosovës |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black double-headed eagle vignette at centre-left with Albanian text legends; a man and woman harvesting tobacco leaves appear in the lower vignette. Bank title and denomination inscriptions frame the design, with a KLA attribution at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Green-printed base of a Macedonian 500-denar note, with the Cyrillic issuer text obscured by a solid black overprint bar; two Albanian-language overprint legends in black letterpress appear at top and foot, accompanied by a red serial number at lower left. |
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Kosovo's provisional banknotes of 1999 were issued in the immediate aftermath of NATO intervention, during the brief window between Yugoslav withdrawal and the establishment of UNMIK's administrative authority. The "Banka Provizore e Republikës së Kosovës" had no formal international recognition and no central bank infrastructure behind it — these notes were a political declaration as much as a monetary instrument, and their practical circulation life was extremely short.
The Deutsche Mark displaced them almost immediately, rendering the series obsolete within weeks of issue. Surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.