5 Dinara

By 1990, Yugoslavia was fracturing beyond repair — Slovenia and Croatia would declare independence in June 1991, followed by a constitutional crisis that rendered federal monetary authority increasingly fictitious. These coins were being struck and circulated even as the dinar itself was sliding toward the hyperinflationary collapse that would eventually produce the 500 billion dinar note of 1993. Nickel brass was a deliberate cost-cutting substitution, the earlier alloy composition having become too expensive relative to face value.