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10 000 Dinara Olympics - Cross-Country Skiing
| Issuer | National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Second Dinar (1994-1998) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | At center, within a raised inner circle, a cross-country skier wearing competition number 5 is depicted in full stride, poles extended, conveying vigorous athletic motion. To the right of the figure, the official Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics emblem — consisting of the Olympic rings above a stylized snowflake motif — is shown, accompanied by the commemorative dates 84-94 below. The denomination D10000 appears in the lower field within the inner circle. The circumferential legend XVII ZIMSKE OLIMPIJSKE IGRE arcs along the upper border, while SARAJEVO and LILLEHAMMER flank a central star in the lower legend, referencing both the 1984 and 1994 Winter Olympic host cities. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in March 1992, and by the time this coin was struck in 1993, the country was in the middle of a devastating war. Issuing Olympic commemoratives while Sarajevo itself was under siege — the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare — gave these coins an almost absurd political charge. The National Bank was asserting institutional normalcy under conditions of active bombardment.
Sarajevo had hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, which lends the cross-country skiing subject a specific local resonance rather than a generic Olympic tie-in.