Croatia adopted the euro in January 2023, and this commemorative is among the first Croatian issues denominated in euros rather than kuna — the currency Petrović himself spent his entire career earning in. He died in a car accident in Germany in June 1993 at 28, mid-contract with the New Jersey Nets, widely considered by that point the best European player to have reached the NBA.
The four-euro face value has no circulation equivalent in the eurozone; it exists purely as a collector denomination, a device the Croatian National Bank has used to sidestep the ECB's restrictions on issuing standard euro collector coinage.
Croatia adopted the euro in January 2023, and this commemorative is among the first Croatian issues denominated in euros rather than kuna — the currency Petrović himself spent his entire career earning in. He died in a car accident in Germany in June 1993 at 28, mid-contract with the New Jersey Nets, widely considered by that point the best European player to have reached the NBA.
The four-euro face value has no circulation equivalent in the eurozone; it exists purely as a collector denomination, a device the Croatian National Bank has used to sidestep the ECB's restrictions on issuing standard euro collector coinage.