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5000 Dinarë
| Issuer | Banka Provizore e Republikës së Kosovës |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse description | A Macedonian 5000 Denar banknote used as the base, overprinted in black with a large double-headed Albanian eagle vignette at left and bold Albanian-language legends across the centre and right. A portrait of a woman in profile occupies the centre of the underlying note, with the KLA inscription at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of a Macedonian 5000 Denar note serves as the base, with the Ilinden monument in Kruševo at centre within a circular guilloche frame. Bold black and red Albanian-language overprint legends appear at top and bottom, with the original Cyrillic Macedonian text partially obscured by a black bar. |
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Kosovo's 1999 provisional notes were issued in the immediate aftermath of the NATO intervention, when the territory was operating without a functioning banking infrastructure and before the Deutsche Mark was formally adopted as the de facto currency later that year. The Banka Provizore e Republikës së Kosovës had no precedent — this was not a central bank with reserves, it was an administrative stopgap.
The series never achieved meaningful circulation. The DM takeover rendered these notes redundant within months, and most examples known today are unissued remainders rather than genuinely circulated pieces.