Banknotes of the Yugoslav dinar

Main article: Yugoslav dinar

The banknotes of the Yugoslav dinar are the several series of paper money emitted by the central bank of the different consecutive states named Yugoslavia (Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).

1920 dinar

In 1920, the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes issued notes for 10, 100 and 1000 dinara. The 10 dinara note was engraved and printed by the American Bank Note Company.^[1] In 1926 the government changed the design of the 10 dinara bill.^[2]

1920–1926 Series
Image		Value	Dimensions	Main Colour	Description		Date of
Obverse	Reverse	Value	Dimensions	Main Colour	Obverse	Reverse	printing	issue	withdrawal	lapse
		10 din.		Blue	male nude with wheel	rocky landscape	1 November 1920
		10 din.		Red	a woman	coat of arms, silhouette of a church	26 May 1926
		100 din.		Yellow	a woman	ships and a peasant	30 November 1920
		1000 din.		Violet	Saint George and the Dragon	man ploughing, different cities (Sarajevo top left, Belgrade at bottom center, Ljubljana top right, Zagreb bottom right)	30 November 1920
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre.

Following the change of the country's name to Yugoslavia in 1929, the bank notes changed as well. New 10 dinara notes were printed that were the same as the old ones with a changed name and a new design of 100 dinara note was issued. In the following years each, other denominations were redesigned, including the 1000 dinara notes in 1931 and 500 dinara notes in 1935.

1929–1939 Series
Image		Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
Obverse	Reverse	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
		10 dinara		Green	King Peter Old Bridge in Mostar	a woman	1939
		20 dinara		Brown	King Peter	a womam	1936
		50 dinara		Brown	King Aleksandar	Ivan Meštrović's statue оf Prince Marko riding his horse Šarac	1931
		100 dinara		Violet	a woman with sword	ships and a peasant	1929
		100 dinara		Violet	a woman and a soldier	two working women, city of Dubrovnik in backgroun	1934
		500 dinara		Blue	King Peter	women working	1935
		1000 dinara		Yellow	Queen Maria of Yugoslavia	two women, one with a sickle and wheat, another with sword and shield	1931
		1000 dinara			three horsemen and a woman a teacher and a pupil	a fisherman and a blacksmith	1935
		10,000 dinara		Brown	King Peter	two farm workers	1936
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1944 dinar

In 1944, the Democratic Federation of Yugoslavia issued notes for 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 dinara.

1944 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	1 dinar			partisan	coat of arms indication of value	1944
	5 dinara		blue
	10 dinara		pink
	20 dinara		red
	50 dinara		dark blue
	100 dinara		dark green
	500 dinara		brown
	1000 dinara		green
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1946 dinar

These were followed in 1946 by notes of the National Bank of the Federal People's Republic for 50, 100, 500 and 1000 dinara. 5000 dinara notes were introduced in 1950.

1946–1950 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	50 dinara		Yellow	a miner	a lumberjack	1946
	100 dinara		Brown	a blacksmith and a harvester	a fisherman
	500 dinara		Brown	a partisan (Milivoje Rodić, later colonel of the Yugoslav army)	farmer ploughing
	1000 dinara		Brown	working woman	Jajce waterfall and a figure of a woman with a sword
	5,000 dinara		Dark blue	a ship in the harbour	steel mill workers	1950
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1955 dinar

The new banknotes were issued in 1955 for 100, 500, 1000 and 5000 dinara. Because the inflation, in 1963, higher value notes were introduced for 10,000 and 50,000 dinara.

Two years later, in 1965, there was the revaluation of dinar at the first time after World War II.

1955–1963 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	100 dinara		Red	a woman	Dubrovnik	1955
	500 dinara		Green	woman with sickle	harvest
	1000 dinara		Brown	Arif Heralić	a factory
	5,000 dinara		Dark blue	Relief by Ivan Meštrović at the Federal Parliament building	Federal Parliament building
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1966 dinar

In 1966, banknotes (dated 1965) were introduced in denominations of 5, 10, 50 and 100 dinara. They used the same obverse design as the 1955–1963 notes. 500 dinara notes were added in 1970, followed by 20 and 1000 dinara in 1974.

1965–1981 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	5 dinara	123 x 59 mm	Green	Woman with sickle	tractors	1965
	5 dinara	123 x 59 mm	Green	Woman with sickle	Indication of value	1968
	10 dinara	131 x 62 mm	Brown	Arif Heralić	a factory	1965
	10 dinara	131 x 62 mm	Brown	Arif Heralić	Indication of value	1968
	20 dinara	139 x 65 mm	Violet	Ship dockside	Indication of value	1974
	50 dinara	140 x 66 mm	Blue	Relief by Ivan Meštrović at the Parliament building in Belgrade	Federal Parliament Building	1965
	50 dinara	140 x 66 mm	Blue		Indication of value	1968
	100 dinara	148 x 70 mm	Red	The Monument of Peace by Antun Augustinčić (1900–1979) in New York in front of the main UN building.		1965
	500 dinara	156 x 74 mm	Dark green	Statue of Nikola Tesla (in the Niagara Falls State Park) by Frano Kršinić background: the spiral coil of his high-frequency transformer at East Houston Street, New York		1970
	1000 dinara	164 x 78 mm	Grey	Woman with fruits		1974
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1985 dinar

In 1985, a new series of notes began with the introduction of 5000 dinara notes featuring a portrait of the late President Josip Broz Tito. As the inflation worsened, banknotes for 20,000 dinara were introduced in 1987, followed by 50,000 dinara in 1988 and 100,000, 500,000, 1 million and 2 million dinara in 1989. The 500,000 and 2 million dinara notes were unusual in that they did not feature a portrait but an image of the monument on Kozara.

1985–1989 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	5,000 dinara		Blue	Josip Broz Tito	Jajce	1985
	20,000 dinara		Brown	Alija Sirotanović	Mining equipment	1987
	50,000 dinara		Green	a woman	Dubrovnik	1988
	100,000 dinara		Red	a girl	various letters and numerals	1989
	500,000 dinara		Violet	Battle of Kozara Memorial	Battle of Sutjeska Memorial
	1,000,000 dinara		Yellow	a young woman	a spike of wheat
	2,000,000 dinara		Dark Green and Brown	Battle of Kozara Memorial	"Broken wings" monument in Šumarice
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1990 dinar

In 1990, notes were introduced for 10, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 dinara, some of which had designs very similar to those used for the corresponding notes of the previous currency. In 1991, 5000 dinara notes were added.

1990–1991 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	10 dinara		red	a girl	various letters and numerals	1990
	50 dinara		violet	Battle of Kozara memorial	Battle of the Sutjeska Memorial	1990
	50 dinara		purple	a boy	flowers	1990
	100 dinara		yellow	young woman	spike of wheat	1990
	100 dinara		green	young woman	spike of wheat	1991
	200 dinara		dark green and brown	Battle of Kozara memorial	"Broken wings" monument in Šumarice	1990
	500 dinara		blue	young man	mountain	1990
	500 dinara		brown	young man	mountain	1991
	1000 dinara		brown	Nikola Tesla	Tesla coil	1990
	1000 dinara		blue	Nikola Tesla	Tesla coil	1991
	5,000 dinara		dark blue	Ivo Andrić	Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge	1991
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1992 dinar

In 1992, notes for 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10,000 and 50,000 dinara were introduced in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Again, designs modified from the previous series of notes were used but this time not in order that notes of equal value had similar designs. In 1993, because the inflation worsening, the higher value notes were introduced for 100,000, 500,000, 1 million, 5 million, 10 million, 50 million, 100 million, 500 million, 1 milliard (billion) and 10 milliard dinara.

1992–1993 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	100 dinara		Blue	a young woman	a spike of wheat	1992
	500 dinara		Violet	a young man	mountain
	1000 dinara		Red	Nikola Tesla	Tesla coil
	5,000 dinara		Dark green	Ivo Andrić	Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge
	10,000 dinara		Brown and dark red	a girl	various letters and numerals
	50,000 dinara		Green and violet	a boy	flowers
	100,000 dinara		Yellow and green	a young woman	sunflowers	1993
	500,000 dinara		Blue and orange	a young man	mountain
	1,000,000 dinara		Blue, pink and yellow	a boy	flowers
	5,000,000 dinara		Green and dark red	Nikola Tesla	Tesla coil and a hydro power plant
	10,000,000 dinara		Grey and light green	Ivo Andrić	National Library of Serbia
	50,000,000 dinara		Pink and grey	a girl	Captain Miša's Mansion
	100,000,000 dinara		Light blue and grey	a young man	Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
	500,000,000 dinara		Violet and grey	a young woman	Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Belgrade
	1,000,000,000 dinara		Pink and light blue	a girl	Federal Parliament
	10,000,000,000 dinara		Pink and dark grey	Nikola Tesla	Tesla coil
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1993 dinar

Banknotes for this currency were issued in denominations of 5000, 10,000, 50,000, 500,000, 5 million, 50 million, 500 million, 5 billion, 50 billion and 500 billion. The unusual sequence of denominations is a result of inflation in Yugoslavia was suffering from.

1993 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	5,000 dinara		Brown and orange	Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla Museum	1993
	10,000 dinara		Brown and green	Vuk Karadžić	Tršić and Tronoša
	50,000 dinara		Violet and blue	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Cetinje monastery
	500,000 dinara		Green and yellow	Dositej Obradović	Hopovo monastery
	5,000,000 dinara		Brown and green	Karađorđe	Church and mansion of Karađorđe
	50,000,000 dinara		Red and violet	Mihajlo Pupin	Telephone Exchange building
	500,000,000 dinara		Violet and blue	Jovan Cvijić	Captain Miša's Mansion
	5,000,000,000 dinara		Orange and yellow	Đura Jakšić	Vraćevšnica monastery
	50,000,000,000 dinara		Pink and light blue	Miloš Obrenović	Prince Miloš's Residence
	500,000,000,000 dinara		Dark red and blue	Jovan Jovanović Zmaj	National Library of Serbia
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

1994 dinar

In January, 1994, notes were issued for 10, 100, 1000, 5000, 50,000, 100,000, 500,000 and 10 million dinara. Because the inflation, they circulated just for a few weeks before the currency was abandoned in favour of the novi dinar. 10 and 100 dinar notes were characteristic for lack of serial number on them.

1994 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	10 dinara		Green and brown	Josif Pančić	Mountain and Picea omorika	1994
	100 dinara		Blue and violet	Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla Museum
	1000 dinara		Violet and red	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Cetinje monastery
	5,000 dinara		Blue and violet	Dositej Obradović	Hopovo monastery
	50,000 dinara		Red and violet	Karađorđe	Church and mension of Karađorđe
	500,000 dinara		Yellow and orange	Jovan Cvijić	Captain Miša's Mansion
	10,000,000 dinara (1993 banknote overprinted with "1994")		Grey and light green	Ivo Andrić	National Library of Serbia
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

Novi dinar

1994 series

On January 24, 1994, notes were introduced for 1, 5 and 10 novih (new) dinara. A second series of notes was introduced later in the year for 5, 10 and 20 novih dinara, with 50 and 100 novih dinara notes added in 1996, and 200 novih dinara added in 1999.

1994–1996 "Novi dinar" Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Predominant colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	1 novi dinar		Brown and green	Josif Pančić	Mountain and Picea omorika	1994
	5 novih dinara		Pink	Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla Museum
	5 novih dinara		Purple	Nikola Tesla	Nikola Tesla Museum
	10 novih dinara		Violet and blue	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Cetinje monastery
	10 novih dinara		Red and brown	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Cetinje monastery
	20 novih dinara		Orange and green	Đura Jakšić	Vraćevšnica monastery
	50 novih dinara		Blue	Miloš Obrenović	Prince Miloš's Residence	1996
	100 novih dinara		Yellow	Dositej Obradović	Hopovo monastery	1996
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

2000 series

In 2000, new notes without the word "novih" were issued in denominations of 10, 20, 50 and 100 dinara. 200 and 1000 dinara notes were introduced in 2001, followed by 5000 dinara in 2002.

Beginning in 2003, banknotes of the (re-established) National Bank of Serbia were introduced. These banknotes use almost the same design as the 2000–2002 Yugoslav notes. The main difference is that the words Narodna Banka Jugoslavije (National Bank of Yugoslavia) are changed to Narodna Banka Srbije (National Bank of Serbia) and the coat of arms of Serbia and Montenegro is changed to the Serbian coat of arms. Banknotes released by the national bank of Yugoslavia between 2000 and 2002 were withdrawn from ciruclation on 1 January 2007.^[3]

2000–2002 Series
Image	Value	Dimensions	Colour	Obverse	Reverse	First printed date
	10 dinara		Ochre-yellow	Vuk Karadžić Filip Višnjić in the background	Figure of Vuk Karadžić Members of the First Slavic Congress held in Prague in 1848 Vignette of the letters Vuk introduced	2000
	20 dinara		Green	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Statue of Njegoš from the Njegoš's mausoleum Mount Lovćen
	50 dinara		Purple	Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac A piano	Figure of Mokranjac A motif of Miroslav Gospels illumination scores Notes
	100 dinara		Blue	Nikola Tesla Definition of tesla, a unit of magnetic flux density	Portrait of Nikola Tesla A detail from the Tesla's AC motor
	200 dinara		Brown	Nadežda Petrović Statue of Nadežda Petrović Silhouette of the Gračanica Monastery	Figure of Nadežda Petrović Gračanica Monastery	2001
	1000 dinara		Red	Đorđe Vajfert An outline of Vajfert's brewery	Portrait of Vajfert Hologram image of St. George and the Dragon Details from the interior of the old building of the National Bank of Yugoslavia	2001
	5,000 dinara		Purple and green	Slobodan Jovanović Ornamental detail from the building of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts	Portrait of Slobodan Jovanović Silhouette of the National Parliament	2002
These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimetre, a standard for world banknotes.

References

Pick, Albert (1994). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: General Issues. Colin R. Bruce II and Neil Shafer (editors) (7th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-207-9.
Pick, Albert (1996). Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: General Issues to 1960. Colin R. Bruce II and Neil Shafer (editors) (8th ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 0-87341-469-1.
Yugoslavia n banknotes at Infotech 2003
Ron Wise's Banknoteworld: Yugoslavia

↑ Cuhaj, 2010, p. 1254.
↑ Cuhaj, 2010, p. 1255.
↑ "Banknotes withdrawn from circulation , National Bank of Serbia". nbs.rs. Retrieved 14 January 2013.