Arif Heralić (5 May 1922 – 17 June 1971) was a Bosnian Roma metal worker on a

blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being supplied above atmospheric pressure. In a ...

Zenica Zenica ( ; ) is a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and an administrative and economic center of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Zenica-Doboj Canton. It is located in the Bosna (river), Bosna river valley, about north of Sarajevo. The ...

. He had 11 children and issues with

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and

mental illness A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. A mental disorder is ...

. As a disabled worker, Heralić died in

extreme poverty Extreme poverty is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, ...

in 1971.

Banknote and iconography

His picture was taken by Nikola Bibić, a '' Borba'' news photographer, in 1954 and from the papers he came to feature on a 1,000

Yugoslav dinar The dinar ( sh-Cyrl, динар) was the currency of Yugoslavia. It was introduced in 1920 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was replaced by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Th ...

banknote issued from 1955 to 1981, re-nominated to ten new dinars since 1965. He is still (as of 2023) popular as an icon of industrial worker in the

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. The banknote is not to be confused with the 20,000 dinar banknote, which depicts Alija Sirotanović.

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1922 births 1971 deaths People from Zenica Bosnia and Herzegovina Romani people {{BosniaHerzegovina-bio-stub

Banknote and iconography

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