He was held up by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to be a model of a hard-worker. In 1987, Zabranjeno Pušenje recorded a song titled "Srce, ruke i lopata" (Heart, Hands and Shovel), paying tribute to "Comrade Avdija", the model of a hard working, modest man. Banknote He was pictured on the 20,000-Yugoslav dinar banknote, but was often wrongly claimed to be pictured on the 10-dinar banknote. Despite the obvious similarities, the 10-dinar banknote and its 1000-old-dinar predecessor with the same design are older (1955) and showed Arif Heralić, a metal worker working on a blast furnace in Zenica. The newer 20,000-dinar banknote was brought out on May Day in 1987. References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20051126110554/http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/102/citanka02.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20050902124953/http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/186/t18611.shtml Alija on Leksikon YU mitologije Text of song Srce, ruke i lopata 1914 births 1990 deaths People from Breza, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims Yugoslav coal miners Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Recipients of the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour