1000 Dinara, FR Yugoslavia, 1992
1000 динара — Народна банка Југославије
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00555
- Serial
- AA 0908402
- Series year
- 1992
- Actually issued
- 1992
- 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
- 163.8 × 77.4 mm (±1.1, from the scan)
- Themes
- YugoslaviaHyperinflationNikola TeslaScience
The type
- Type
- 1000 Dinara, FR Yugoslavia, 1992
- Portrait
- Nikola Tesla
- Printer
- Zavod za izradu novčanica, Beograd
- Rarity
- common
Symbology
- Nikola Tesla
- The engineer (1856–1943), the recurring face of Serbian scientific pride on the dinar.
- Tesla coil
- One of Tesla's high-frequency resonant transformers, discharging on the reverse.
What was happening
The opening of the great inflation. When Yugoslavia broke apart in 1991–92, the rump Federal Republic of Serbia and Montenegro inherited the dinar and the war that destroyed it. Hyperinflation set in through 1992 and became, by early 1994, one of the most severe episodes ever recorded.
This 1000 dinara, dated 1992 and still a serious sum when printed, carries Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) on the face and one of his high-frequency transformers — a Tesla coil throwing sparks — on the back. Within two years the National Bank would be printing notes of 500 billion dinara ([[yugoslavia-5000-dinara-1992]], [[yugoslavia-100000-dinara-1993]]).
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 1000 Dinara, FR Yugoslavia, 1992 in the collection.
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