10 Euros Vučedol Culture

The Vučedol culture flourished along the Danube in eastern Slavonia roughly between 3000 and 2200 BC, and the site near Vukovar has yielded one of the most significant Bronze Age assemblages in central Europe. The so-called Vučedol Dove — technically an ceremonial vessel in the form of a bird — became a Croatian cultural emblem of considerable political weight after the city of Vukovar was devastated during the 1991 siege, lending the motif a resonance that long predates numismatic use.