Currency of Macedonia 5000 Denar banknote 1996
National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia - Народна Банка на Република Македонија
Obverse: Bronze figure of Maenad (6th century B.C.), Tetovo (horizontally) at center right and as watermark.
The Tetovo Maenad is a bronze figurine, an archeological discovery, unearthed in a rich grave discovered in Tetovo and constructed in the last decades of VI century B.C. The figurine represents a character playing and dancing with her partner, a satire, in honour of the cult of the god Dionysis. It represents the artistic expression of the beginnings of the ancient era in Macedonia.
Reverse: Mosaic - Heraclea Lyncestis - Cerberus tied to fig tree, (5th-6th century AD), Bitola.
This mosaic taken from the floor of the Nartex in the Great Basilica in Heraklea represents the Christian Universe. The landscape is depicted by trees laden with fruit, around which birds are flying and between which are animals and bushes in flower. Cerberus the Dog is tied to the fig tree, representing the watcher of Heaven.
Watermark: registered threedimensional watermark bearing image of "Tetovo Maenad" (a figurine of a dancer from VI century B.C., discovered in the Tetovo region).
Windowed Thread: 2mm wide windowed thread, visible microtext bearing text abbreviation "NBRM".
Intaligo print: multi-colored intaligo printed text and engraving.
Latent Image: in the lower part of the main mask image the text "NBRM" is printed and visible at a special angle.
Micro-text: in the thin line above the text "Narodna Banka na Republika Makedonija".
See-through Feature: image of a fig divided into two parts, one on each side of the note, and which match when observed against the light.
Optically - Variable Ink: a bird printed in special ink which changes colours when viewed at different angles.
Color: Black and violet on olive-green and multicolored underprint.