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2 Krooni University of Tartu
| Issuer | Estonia |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Currency | Old kroon (1928-1940) |
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| Obverse lettering | EESTI VABARIIK 1932 (Translation: Republic of Estonia) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 300th anniversary of the University of Tartu's founding under Swedish King Gustav II Adolf in 1632, this commemorative was struck during a brief window of Estonian independence that would end with Soviet occupation in 1940. The university itself had a fractured institutional history — closed repeatedly under Russian imperial rule and only re-established as a fully Estonian-language institution in 1919.
The .500 fineness was a deliberate cost concession common to interwar commemoratives across the Baltic states, where mint budgets were constrained and silver coinage had already been debased from earlier .750 standards.