Bosnia and Herzegovina issued this coin in 1994 while the country was still under active siege — Sarajevo alone had been encircled since April 1992 in what became the longest capital city siege in modern warfare. Issuing coinage at all was a political act, a newly recognized state asserting institutional normalcy while its infrastructure was being shelled. Very little of this issue ever reached general circulation inside the country.
Bosnia and Herzegovina issued this coin in 1994 while the country was still under active siege — Sarajevo alone had been encircled since April 1992 in what became the longest capital city siege in modern warfare. Issuing coinage at all was a political act, a newly recognized state asserting institutional normalcy while its infrastructure was being shelled. Very little of this issue ever reached general circulation inside the country.