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Meal coupon Jelšingrad, Banja Luka
| Issuer | Jelšingrad, Tvornica strojeva i ljevaonica čelika, Banja Luka |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain white coupon with a bold rectangular vignette at top centre containing the issuer name in white letterpress on a grey hatched background. Below, two lines of Latin-script text identify the coupon type and purpose, with the abbreviation M.P. at lower centre. A circular violet rubber stamp of the issuing factory appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | »JELŠINGRAD« Tvornica strojeva i ljevaonica čelika BANJA LUKA Pogon BOS. GRADIŠKA |
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Jelšingrad — the name itself is a Yugoslav-era compound of "Jelša" (alder tree) and "grad" (city) — was a major machine-building and steel foundry complex in Banja Luka, established in the socialist industrialization drives of postwar Yugoslavia. Factory-issued meal coupons of this type were a routine feature of large Yugoslav industrial enterprises, functioning as internal scrip redeemable only at the plant canteen. They circulated entirely outside the formal monetary system and were never intended to survive.
That most did not is precisely why even ordinary surviving examples from smaller regional works like Jelšingrad attract collector interest today.