Decision on Issue and Main Features of the 1,000-Dinar Banknote

RS Official Gazette, No. 90/2003
Pursuant to paragraph 1, Article 21 and paragraph 1, Article 55 of the Law on the Bank of the National Bank of Serbia (RS Official Gazette, No. 72/2003), the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia hereby passes a DECISION ON ISSUE AND MAIN FEATURES OF THE 1,000-DINAR BANKNOTE

1. The National Bank of Serbia shall issue a 1,000-dinar banknote.
2. The 1,000-dinar banknote shall be printed in a tinted, secure paper with multi￾tone watermark bearing the image of Djordje Vajfert and an OVD element on
   the obverse of the banknote (hereinafter: kinegram) placed on the lower part between the portrait and the denomination mark: ë1,000í. The kinegram elements shall include the denomination value of the banknote ë1,000í and the stylized image of the central motif of the occasion-marking medal ñ St. Djordje slays a dragon, placed in the central zone of the kinegram, as well as the micro-text reading ë1,000 dinarsí written in the Cyrillic and Latin letters in the two concentric circles around the central motif. The outlines of the central motif shall become wider from the central part of the kinegram towards the borders of the image. Depending on the viewing angle and the angle of the incoming light the kinegram shall form several different images in different colors with the smooth flow from one image to the other. On the reverse of the banknote there shall be embedded the interrupted security thread bearing the micro-lettering reading ëDINAR ñ ДИНАРí, written both in the Cyrillic and Latin letters continually appearing on the obverse and the reverse of the banknote (the security thread and the micro-lettering are clearly visible on the reverse, and from the obverse they are visible under the ultra-violet light that rendering the banknote transparent). Imbedded in the paper shall also be security fibers in yellow, blue and red color, of which yellow and red fibers fluoresce yellow and red under ultra￾violet light. The numeration shall contain two letter marks and seven numerical ones placed on the reverse of the banknote in the upper part between the National Bank of Serbia logo and the denomination mark reading ë1,000í. It shall be printed in the black fluorescent color that fluoresces greenish-yellow under ultraviolet light. The banknote shall be printed in a combined technique ñ the obverse in the multicolored intaglio offset printing, whereas the reverse shall be in the

multicolored offset printing and the relief printing technique for the numeration elements.
3. The 1,000-dinar banknote shall have dimensions of 72x151cm.
Obverse of the Banknote
4. The disposition of the banknote shall be horizontal.
On the left hand side of the banknote there shall be the portrait of Djordje Vajfert, in the intaglio printing. To the left of the portrait there shall be a line of words in the positive reading ëDjordje Vajfertí both in the Cyrillic and Latin letters and the years of his birth and death: 1850-1937í. To the right of the portrait there shall be a dominant image of the beer brewery complex, ownership of Djordje Vajfert. The denomination mark ë1,000 is written in the negative, located on the lower upper right hand side of the fully printed part, whereas the one written in the positive is located in the lower part of the white area. The text reading ëNational Bank of Serbiaí written in the Latin letters shall be printed in two rows on the white area on the right hand side part, whereas the same text shall also appear written in two rows in the Cyrillic letters near the left hand side margin of the banknote as follows: the words ëNarodna bankaí in the positive, and the word ëSrbijeí in the negative. Above the word ëSrbijeí written in the Cyrillic letters in the negative, there shall be an intaglio printing mark for the visually impaired persons (two horizontal strips in a rectangular frame). To the left of the word ëSrbijeí, there shall be the micro￾lettering reading ëNBSí printed in the same technique in both Cyrillic and Latin letters. In the upper part of the white area of the banknote, there shall be an optically variable (OVI color) intaglio security element bearing the National Bank of Serbia logo. Depending on the viewing angle, the element shall change its color from magenta (a variation of red color) to green. In the lower right side part of the white area, above the denomination value mark of the banknote reading ë1,000í, there shall be an intaglio kip effect reading the NBS logo. This mark shall be visible only under certain viewing angles (the viewing direction must be in a nearly horizontal line with the banknote, and rotated by 45 degrees to the left/right), providing the image both in negative and in positive. Along the upper and the lower parts of the element, there shall continuously run the micro-text reading ëNBSí, in the Cyrillic letter in the upper
part and in the Latin letters in the lower part.

In the lower part of the banknote, to the left of the denomination mark reading ë1,000í, there shall be a transparent printing in register, featuring a half of an image visible as a whole only if viewed together with the matching half image printed on the reverse of the banknote (the whole picture features a triangle made of two smaller triangles, one of which is printed on the obverse and the other one on the reverse of the banknote). To the right of the number ë1,000í in negative, there shall be the text reading ëhiljadu dinaraí written in the Latin letters in the positive, whereas the same text in the Cyrillic letter shall appear in the negative to the right of the portrait down towards the lower part of the banknote. Along the right hand side edge of the banknote, against the light-red background, there shall appear in Cyrillic and in Latin letters the text: ëFalsifikovanje se kaznjava po zakonuí and in the same line a discrete denomination value mark ë1,000í. The Obverse of the Banknote
5. The disposition shall be vertical.
In the central part of the printed area of the banknote, there shall be the portrait of Djordje Vajfert in the sitting posture against the background depicting the interior of the building of the National Bank of Serbia. Below the
figure there shall be the central motif of the occasion-marking medal.
The denomination mark ë1,000í printed in the positive shall be adjusted in the upper right hand side corner of the area against the discrete red background, whereas the same mark printed in the negative shall appear in the lower left hand side corner of the fully printed area. In the upper right hand side corner of the fully printed area there shall be the text reading ëhiljadu dinaraí printed in the positive in the Cyrillic letters, whereas the same text shall also appear below it, but printed in the negative and in the Latin letters. In the lower right hand side part of the white area there shall appear three vertical rows of text printed in both Cyrillic and Latin letters reading ëBeogradí, ëGodinaí and ëGuvernerí, along with the year ë2003í in the negative. Below them, there shall appear facsimile of the signature of the National Bank of Serbia Governor, Kori Udovicki. Along the upper and lower border of the fully printed area there shall be eight rows of the micro￾text reading ë1,000 dinaraí printed in the positive, both in the Cyrillic and Latin letters.

Above the micro-text there shall be printed the denomination of the banknote reading ë1,000í. In the upper left hand side corner of the banknote, there shall be the National Bank of Serbia logo, against the background of the area below the logo shall contain the multiplicated shadowed number 1,000 and the micro-text ë1,000í. In the upper right hand side part of the banknote, on the border of the white area and the fully printed part, there shall be planted the second part of the transparent printing in register referred to in paragraph 8, Section 4 of the present Decision.
6. On the reverse of the banknote, predominant color shall be red in various
hues, with the addition of ochre-yellow and greenish-blue hues on the obverse. The ochre-yellow color on both the obverse and reverse of the banknote fluoresces in the yellow color under the ultra-violet lamplight.
7. The present Decision shall come into force on the day of its publication in the
RS Official Gazette.
Dec. No. 62 Governor
September 11, 2003 of the National Bank of Serbia Belgrade Kori Udovicki