Catalog
100 Kuna
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Hrvatske (National Bank of Croatia) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Reference(s) | P#32 |
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| Obverse lettering | NARODNA BANKA HRVATSKE STO KUNA 100 (Translation: NATIONAL BANK OF CROATIA / ONE HUNDRED KUNA / 100) |
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| Protection description | Ivan Mažuranić portrait, visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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Croatia's 1993 banknote series was the second kuna issue, replacing the Croatian dinar after only two years of circulation — the dinar itself had been introduced in 1991 as a transitional currency following independence from Yugoslavia. The kuna denomination name drew immediate controversy given its use by the Ustasha puppet state during World War II, a point the Croatian government addressed publicly before reintroduction.
Giesecke & Devrient's Leipzig plant, operating under East German management until reunification, had by 1993 fully reintegrated into the parent firm's western production network. The Šutej father-and-son design team — Miroslav being one of Croatia's most recognized graphic artists — gave the series a visual coherence unusual for a newly independent state printing its second currency in as many years.