200 Novih Dinara Nikola Tesla

Yugoslavia issued this coin in 1996 while the country was functionally dissolving — the Federal Republic by that point comprised only Serbia and Montenegro, operating under UN sanctions imposed in 1992 over the Bosnian war. Commemorative silver issues from this period were produced almost entirely for export sale to foreign collectors, as hard currency was desperately needed and the domestic dinar had been rendered worthless by the hyperinflationary crisis of 1993-94, during which monthly inflation briefly exceeded 313 million percent.

Tesla was born in Smiljan, then part of the Austrian Empire, in 1856 — claimed by both Serbia and Croatia to this day.