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150 Kuna Dubrovnik Carrack / Argosy

Issuer Hrvatska narodna banka (Croatian National Bank)
Year 2007
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Diameter 37 mm
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Obverse script Latin
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The kuna denomination takes its name from the marten pelt used as a unit of value in medieval Croatian trade — a monetary tradition that predates coinage in the region by centuries. Dubrovnik's carracks, the large merchant vessels that made the city-state's fortune, were so dominant in Mediterranean and Atlantic trade by the 15th century that the English word "argosy" derives directly from "Ragusa," the city's Italian name. Shakespeare used the term; so did insurance underwriters in London who had never seen the Adriatic.

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