1 Kroon

Estonia's 1992 kroon series marked the reintroduction of the national currency after fifty years of Soviet occupation — the kroon had last circulated in 1940. The contract went to United States Banknote Corporation, one of the few American security printers then positioned to handle urgent sovereign commissions, though USNC itself would enter bankruptcy within two years of printing this series.

Engraver Urmas Ploomipuu was Estonian, a deliberate choice that gave the newly independent state authorship over its own monetary iconography at a moment when that distinction carried real political weight.