Catalog
100 Dinara
| Issuer | Republic of Croatia |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Printer | Tumba Bruk, Sweden (1755-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA 100 MINISTAR FINANCIJA RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ 1711 - 1787. 100 STO HRVATSKIH DINARA (Translation: REPUBLIC OF CROATIA 100 FINANCE MINISTER RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ 1711 - 1787. 100 ONE HUNDRED CROATIAN DINAR) |
| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of Zagreb Cathedral with its twin neo-Gothic spires rising against a multicolour guilloche background in green, violet, and gold. The Croatian coat of arms appears at upper left, with the denomination numeral 100 set vertically along the left margin; a large bold numeral 100 in outlined letterpress is placed at lower centre, above the value inscription. The designer's signature Z. JAKUŠ appears at lower right. |
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Croatia declared independence in June 1991, and its first banknote series was rushed into production at Tumba Bruk in Sweden before the country had even secured international recognition. The Croatian dinar itself was only a transitional currency, introduced to replace Yugoslav dinar circulating at par — a political statement as much as a monetary one. It survived barely two years before the kuna replaced it in 1994.
Zlatko Jakuš handling both design and engraving is unusual and worth noting. The series has a coherence that committee-designed emergency issues rarely achieve.