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1 Trsatika
| Issuer | Croatia |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Size | 156 x 69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Republika Hrvatska SOUVENIR Jedna 1 Trsatika J. Ahel ☆ K. Mustać ☆ L. Jelušić ☆ produkcija TETRA (Translation: Republic of Croatia SOUVENIR One 1 Trsatika J. Ahel ☆ K. Mustać ☆ L. Jelušić ☆ TETRA production) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of Anton Dominik von Fernkorn's winged dragon statue at Trsat, Rijeka, engraved in detailed intaglio against a multicolour guilloche background in blue, red, and green. The Croatian chequerboard coat of arms appears at upper right; a large stylised numeral '1' and the denomination title in Gothic script occupy the right field. Serial number printed in red at lower left. |
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The trsatika takes its name from Trsat, the historic settlement above Rijeka whose medieval fortress dominates the area — an unusually localized reference for a national currency note. Croatia issued these in the months immediately following its June 1991 independence declaration, before the Croatian dinar and later kuna gave the country a more stable monetary framework. Printing domestically at Rijeka rather than abroad reflected both the urgency of the moment and the practical difficulty of contracting foreign security printers during an active conflict.
The entire trsatika series was short-lived, functionally transitional, and printed in limited runs. Produkcija TETRA was not a specialist security printer by conventional standards, which shows in the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting provisions.