2 Denari

North Macedonia's first coins as an independent state entered circulation in 1993, just two years after the country declared independence from Yugoslavia — and under the provisional name "Republic of Macedonia," which was already generating the diplomatic dispute with Greece that would take nearly three decades to resolve. The prolonged KM#3 production run through 2014 reflects the slow pace at which the denomination found stable footing in a country that had inherited no monetary infrastructure from its Yugoslav period.