Catalog
100 Krooni
| Issuer | Eesti Pank (Bank of Estonia) |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| In circulation to | 2011 |
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| Obverse description | Light and dark blue multicolor note with a portrait vignette of Lydia Koidula (1843–1886), Estonian poetess and playwright and a central figure of the 19th-century national awakening movement, positioned at left center against a guilloche underprint. To the right of the portrait, an intaglio vignette of a nightingale in song alludes to her celebrated verse collection Emajõe Ööbik (The Nightingale of the Emajõgi River). Denominating numeral 100 and the legends EESTI PANK and SADA KROONI appear in intaglio lettering. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Estonia's 100 Krooni series had a long and complicated run — the kroon itself was restored in 1992 after fifty years of Soviet occupation, making any post-independence issue a direct product of that monetary reconstruction. By 2007, the kroon was already living on borrowed time: Estonia had committed to eurozone entry, which it achieved on 1 January 2011, at which point all kroon notes were withdrawn from circulation and exchanged at the fixed irrevocable rate of 15.6466 EEK to the euro.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in the catalog data is almost certainly a data entry error. De La Rue printed this series well after Estonian independence restoration.