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Original scientific paper

On Forging and Forgeries of the “Blue Hundred-Dinar Note”, a Hundred-Dinar Banknote of the Privileged People’s Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, from 1905

Vladimir Geiger ; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, CRO


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Abstract

One of the most frequently forged banknotes in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes was the hundred-dinar banknote of the Privileged People’s Bank of the
Kingdom of Serbia from 1905 (released into circulation in 1907), also known as the
“blue hundred-dinar note”, which was printed until 1923 in the Banque de France in
Paris. In the lack of new hundred-dinar notes, it continued to be circulated and was
legal tender in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia until July 1938, the longest of any banknote
of the Privileged People’s Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia. According to records in
police/criminological literature from the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, by the end
of 1932 eleven types of forgeries of this banknote were recorded. The most important
cases of forging the hundred-dinar banknote, the “blue hundred-dinar note” from 1905,
were discovered in 1926 and 1928 in south Banat, in Vršac and Veliki Bečkerek (today
Zrenjanin). The article, on the basis of the then press, archive material and numismatic
literature, shows the appearance of forgeries and forgers of the ”blue hundred-dinar
note” of the Privileged People’s Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, from 1905. It also
writes about the characteristics of the forgeries and the differences between the genuine
and the forged banknotes.

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Hrčak ID:

275822

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/275822

Publication date:

20.12.2021.

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