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250 Marka Princess Diana
| Issuer | Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Obverse lettering | BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA 1998 |
| Reverse description | A three-quarter facing bust portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, occupies the central field, with a decorative floral spray of roses and foliage at her sides. To the left, a map outline of Bosnia and Herzegovina bears the inscription BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA in the field. The birth and death years 1961 and 1997 flank the portrait vertically along the left and right periphery respectively, while the curved legend DIANA - PRINCESS OF WALES arcs along the upper rim. The denomination 250 MARAKA is inscribed in two lines at the base of the design. |
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Bosnia issued this coin just months after Diana's death in August 1997, capitalizing on the global wave of memorial merchandise that flooded markets across dozens of countries. The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina was not alone — nearly every minor mint and issuing authority with access to a commemorative program produced Diana pieces in 1997–98 — but the Bosnian issue carries an awkward political dimension: the country was barely two years out of the Dayton Agreement when this was struck, its institutions still largely administered under international supervision.
Mintage figures for this type are poorly documented, which is typical of Bosnian commemorative issues from this transitional period.