20 Kuna Dalmatian Dog

Issued by the Croatian National Bank in 2021, this piece belongs to a long-running series celebrating indigenous Croatian breeds — a program that has run since the mid-1990s and reflects a deliberate institutional policy of promoting national cultural identity through commemorative coinage. The Dalmatian, despite its global recognition, was not formally documented as a Croatian breed by the FCI until 1994, a classification Croatia lobbied for persistently following independence.

At 155.5 grams and 60 mm, these large-format silver issues were struck in limited quantities and sold directly through the HNB. Croatia's adoption of the euro in January 2023 ended the kuna entirely, making all late-period kuna commemoratives denominated currency of an extinct monetary system.