Catalog
10 000 Dinara Gray Wolf
| Issuer | National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic full-body portrait of a Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) is depicted in profile, walking to the right across a lightly rendered ground line with sparse vegetation. The animal is rendered in fine relief with careful attention to anatomical detail. The curved legend PRESERVE PLANET EARTH arcs around the upper periphery. The denomination D10000 appears in the lower exergue beneath the wolf. |
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Bosnia struck this coin mid-war, while Sarajevo remained under siege and the country had no stable monetary infrastructure to speak of. The 10,000 Dinara denomination was nominally tied to a currency already collapsing under wartime inflation — the Bosnian Dinar was replaced entirely by the Convertible Mark in 1998. Issues like this were effectively bullion-backed prestige pieces produced for foreign sale, not domestic circulation, funding international recognition efforts as much as anything else.