750 Dinara Brontosaurus

Bosnia and Herzegovina issued this coin in 1993 while actively at war, its government besieged in Sarajevo and its currency in freefall. The decision to produce a silver commemorative — and to theme it around a prehistoric animal rather than anything nationalist or political — reflects the ad hoc, almost surreal nature of early Bosnian state-building under siege. Such issues were produced largely for the collector export market, generating hard currency at a moment when the convertible mark did not yet exist and the dinar was collapsing by the week.