Kosovo : Scarce wartime provisional Banknote, the only notes they issued. UNC

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On auction a very scarce 1000 Dinare Banknote, issued in 1999 during the Yugoslav war period by Kosovo Provisional Authority, note is mint, UNC. In common with many regions of the former-Yugoslavia, currency became an instrument of propaganda, as provisional authorities all over the region made clear their break from their former currencies by issuing something with their own cultural mark on it to ensure a statement of their new national identity was clearly made. Like this, most were cheaply produced, and became a victim of hyper-inflation before their new states were either absorbed by their foes, or went on to stabilize and win some degree of legitimacy as a new European currency. That is what makes these Kosovo Banknotes the ultimate collectible between all the dross that makes up the war-era Yugoslav Banknote scene. When Kosovo achieved independence it wisely opted to become a user (but not a member) or the €uro, and so their banknote history never went any further than this very brief provisional series. For the European Banknote collector, it is a case of like it or lump it....this is the only series of Banknotes to have ever been produced there, It isn't the most attractive note ever seen, wartime limitations meant that the best they had to offer was to print an overprint over a note of the same denominaion from neighbouring read more

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