Arif Heralić (5 May 1922 – 17 June 1971)



Arif Heralić (5 May 1922 – 17 June 1971)was a Bosnian Roma metal worker on a blast furnace in Zenica. His picture was taken by N. Bibić, a Borba news photographer, in 1954, and from the papers, he came to feature on a 1,000 Yugoslav dinar banknote issued from 1955 to 1981, re-dominated to ten new dinars since 1965. He is still (as of 2013) popular as an icon of industrial workers in the former Yugoslavia.