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50 Kuna Dalmatian Dog
| Issuer | Croatian National Bank |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA 50 KUNA (Translation: Republic of Croatia 50 Kuna) |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Croatia's "Kuna" monetary system took its name from the marten pelt — a medieval unit of exchange — but the broader series of collector gold issues regularly featured Croatian fauna with no particular thematic obligation to that etymology. This Dalmatian dog issue was part of a deliberate push by the Croatian National Bank to market numismatic pieces internationally before Croatia's scheduled euro adoption, which was already under active negotiation with the European Commission by 2021.
Croatia joined the eurozone on January 1, 2023, making all Kuna-denominated issues obsolete as circulating currency within roughly fourteen months of this coin's release.