10 Marka 2000 Olympics

Bosnia and Herzegovina was still rebuilding its monetary institutions when this piece was struck — the Central Bank itself had only been established under the 1995 Dayton Agreement, which ended the 1992–1995 war. Issuing Olympic commemoratives was, for many newly reconstituted central banks of the 1990s, among the first exercises in sovereign currency production, and Bosnia was no exception.

The Sydney Games connection is thin here — a licensing arrangement more than a genuine national athletic story. Bosnia first competed as an independent nation at the 1996 Atlanta Games.