Catalog
10 000 Dinara Goosander Bird
| Issuer | National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Reverse description | A female Common Goosander (Mergus merganser) depicted swimming with a brood of chicks clustered around her in calm water, rendered in fine naturalistic relief at center. A second goosander in flight is shown above and to the right in the open field. The environmental conservation legend PRESERVE PLANET EARTH curves along the upper periphery, while the denomination D10000 is inscribed in the lower exergue in Latin characters. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Bosnia's 1996 gold issues were struck while the country was still emerging from the 1992–1995 war, and the National Bank was operating under extraordinary international supervision following the Dayton Agreement. The goosander series was part of a broader wildlife commemorative program almost certainly aimed at foreign collector markets rather than domestic circulation — hard currency was scarce and the convertible mark had not yet been introduced to replace the wartime dinar.
The dinar itself was effectively obsolete within two years of this coin's issue, replaced in 1998 by the Convertible Mark pegged to the Deutschmark.