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10 Krooni Barn Swallow
| Issuer | Eesti Pank |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is depicted in dynamic flight, its deeply forked tail prominently extended, soaring across the central field from left to right in a naturalistic composition of considerable artistic refinement. The background features a stylized Estonian landscape of scattered forested islets and a shoreline rendered in fine detail, with additional swallows suggested in distant flight near the upper left rim. The denomination numeral 10 appears in large format in the lower central field, with the legend KROONI inscribed in bold Latin capitals immediately below along the base of the design. |
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Estonia restored its national currency, the kroon, in June 1992 after fifty years of Soviet occupation had rendered any independent monetary institution illegal. This coin belongs to the first wave of commemorative issues released alongside that reintroduction, making it among the earliest objects to carry the authority of a reconstituted Estonian state.
The barn swallow had been designated Estonia's national bird in 1960 — an officially sanctioned symbol even under Soviet rule, which lent it a quietly nationalistic charge throughout the occupation decades.