Catalog
100 Denari Statehood
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Weight | 16 g |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | At center, a depiction of the historic cherry tree cannon (Crešovo Topče), a celebrated improvised field piece used during the Ilinden Uprising of 1903, positioned above the arced Cyrillic inscription ЦРЕШОВОТО ТОПЧЕ. The motif is set against a plain field framed by a circular border. The overall composition commemorates the centennial of the 1903 Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. |
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Macedonia's 100 Denari commemorative series was issued during a period when the country was actively lobbying for NATO and EU candidacy, a process complicated considerably by the long-running dispute with Greece over the constitutional name "Republic of Macedonia." That dispute forced the country to compete internationally under the awkward designation "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" — a compromise that lasted until the 2018 Prespa Agreement finally resolved it.
The "Statehood" designation references the 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, one of the few such dissolutions achieved without armed conflict.