10000 Dinara, FR Yugoslavia, 1993

This copy

Accession

OM-00549

Serial

AB 5431911

Series year

1993

Actually issued

1993

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

UNC (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

$10 indicative

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

Dimensions

161.1 × 71.6 mm (±3.7, from the scan)

Themes

YugoslaviaHyperinflationLiteraryVuk Karadžić

The type

Type

10000 Dinara, FR Yugoslavia, 1993

Portrait

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Printer

Zavod za izradu novčanica, Beograd

Rarity

common

Symbology

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

The language reformer (1787–1864) who remade the Serbian Cyrillic script and the written language.

Monastery and the Cyrillic letters

An Orthodox monastery with the reformed alphabet, binding the reformer to the church and the script.

What was happening

The face shows Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864), the philologist who reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet on the principle "write as you speak," collected the folk songs, and effectively founded the modern Serbian literary language. The back shows an Orthodox monastery with the letters of the alphabet he standardised.

Dated 1993, one of the national-culture notes the inflation turned out alongside the Tesla and Andrić designs ([[yugoslavia-5000-dinara-1993]], [[yugoslavia-5000-dinara-1992]]).

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10000 Dinara, FR Yugoslavia, 1993 in the collection.