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20 Maraka Princess Diana
| Issuer | Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, depicted in right-facing bust with curled hair and a floral spray at the lower left, rendered in delicate relief against a plain field. A map silhouette, likely representing Bosnia and Herzegovina, appears in the background behind the effigy. The curved legend DIANA - Princess of Wales arcs across the upper portion of the field in a stylised script, with the birth and death years 1961 and 1997 inscribed vertically along the left and right sides respectively, each flanked by a dot. The denomination 20 MARAKA is inscribed in two lines at the base of the design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued the year after Diana's death in the Paris tunnel crash of August 1997, this piece was part of a wave of commemorative gold struck by smaller issuing authorities across Europe and beyond — many with no meaningful connection to the subject. Bosnia's Central Bank was barely five years old at the time, established under the Dayton Agreement framework, and commemorative issues like this one were a straightforward hard-currency revenue mechanism rather than any expression of national sentiment.