Detailed observation of the 5, 20, and 50 kuna banknotes leads to interesting discoveries. Namely, the microtext printed on the obverse of the banknotes repeatedly repeats one and the same text, but upon careful reading of that text, we find grammatical errors. The question arises here whether these are accidental grammatical
Security features or grammatical errors on Croatian kuna banknotes? Read more »
Banknotes of the Croatian kuna were introduced into circulation on May 30, 1994, simultaneously with kuna and lipa coins, thereby completing the process of establishing the new monetary system of the Republic of Croatia. In the first issue, banknotes were released in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000
Replacement banknotes represent a special and often insufficiently known segment of notaphily, which interestingly connects the technical process of money printing with collecting practice. Although at first glance they do not differ from regular specimens, their role in the monetary system and the way they are marked make them particularly interesting to researchers
Banknotes from the same position on the sheet bear the characteristics of the cliché with which they were printed. It is common for individual clichés to have a minor or major defect, so all banknotes printed at the position of such a cliché also have that peculiarity in their final appearance. Depending on where
The ethnographic motif on the 100 Kuna banknote from 1943 represents the main visual element of the reverse side, located in its central part. It consists of the depiction of a woman with a little girl in her arms, dressed in folk costumes characteristic of certain settlements in the Zagreb sub-mountain region (Prigorje). At the time the banknote was created, those settlements
Ethnographic motif on the 100 Kuna banknote from 1943. Read more »
It is a great honor and pleasure to speak with people who have made history, especially history that is a subject of one's personal interest. One of those people is the academic sculptor, university professor, and academician Kuzma Kovačić, the man who visually designed the kuna and lipa coins. In this
Interview with academic sculptor Kuzmo Kovačić, “father of the minted kuna and lipa” Read more »
In today's video, we are talking about the smallest Croatian circulating banknote until the introduction of the euro, the National Bank of Croatia 5 kuna banknote dated October 31, 1993. This banknote belongs to the first series of kuna banknotes and was withdrawn from circulation in 2007 when it was replaced by a new series with better security features
Overview of the banknote: Croatia 5 Kuna 1993, Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan Read more »
Most people who are involved in numismatics in a certain way are not clear about the procedure of manufacturing, i.e., printing banknotes. In this article, you have the opportunity to get a better idea of that, and also to get acquainted with the numbering scheme of the 1000 Kuna banknotes of the Independent State of Croatia from 1941. Beginning
In today's video, for the first time, we have a guest, and not just any guest. We spoke with Vedran Krušelj, one of the few numismatic researchers in Croatia today. Colleage Krušelj has been working for a long time on a book about the banknotes of the Independent State of Croatia, which, it seems,
To mark the 25th anniversary of the admission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations, the Croatian National Bank put a new commemorative 25-kuna circulation coin into circulation on May 22, 2017. The conceptual and artistic design of this coin was created by academic sculptor Damir Mataušić, and it was minted at the Croatian Monetary Institute (today
The main motif on modern Croatian banknotes is reserved exclusively for prominent and significant individuals from Croatia's long history, but an earlier period in numismatics artistically records the rich tradition and heritage of folk/national clothing in Slavonia on its banknotes. These ethnographic motifs of Slavonia are present on
Political iconography has always been present on currency, from ancient times to the present day. We can say that it is inseparable from money as one of the symbols of a country's statehood. What did political iconography look like on our currency; regarding the banknotes of the Independent State of Croatia; the currency of socialist Yugoslavia,
The idea was to meet Viščević at his home in Kastav near Rijeka. We wanted to see his coin empire from which he runs his company Monetalis. In a journalist's mind, we imagined a room with hundreds of banknotes and coins hanging on the walls and displayed in cabinets. Plan
Zlatko Viščević's statement for Dnevnik Nova TV on the topic of kuna and lipa and their numismatic potential in the future. This topic is already getting a bit boring for the numismatic community, but it is still in the focus of Croatian media due to public interest. Especially since the appearance of the “Pelješac Bridge” phenomenon and
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