10 Dinara, SFR Yugoslavia, 1968

This copy

Accession

OM-00545

Serial

AE 0923942

Series year

1968

Actually issued

1968

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$3 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-03.

Dimensions

124.9 × 53.6 mm (±3.2, from the scan)

Themes

SocialistYugoslaviaIndustryPortrait

The type

Type

10 Dinara, SFR Yugoslavia, 1968

Portrait

Arif Heralić

Printer

Zavod za izradu novčanica, Beograd

Rarity

common

Symbology

Arif Heralić, the Zenica steelworker

A real foundry worker from the Zenica steelworks whose photographed likeness became the face of Yugoslav industrial labour on the dinar.

What was happening

The money of Tito's Yugoslavia at its mid-century height. This 10 dinara note, dated 1 May 1968 — May Day — carries one of the most reproduced faces in Yugoslav life: the Zenica steelworker Arif Heralić (1922–1971), lifted from a famous 1954 photograph and used on the dinar for years as the emblem of socialist self-management and heavy industry. He wears the goggles pushed up on his cap, the blast furnace behind him.

The reverse is purely ornamental, large value numerals in a guilloche, printed at the Zavod za izradu novčanica in Belgrade. See also the 1978 reissue ([[yugoslavia-10-dinara-1978]]).

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10 Dinara, SFR Yugoslavia, 1968 in the collection.