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10 000 Dinara Tyrannosaurus Rex
| Issuer | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Weight | 6.22 g |
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| Obverse description | At centre, the national emblem of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, featuring the heraldic shield with the diagonal white stripe on blue field, surmounted by a fleur-de-lis motif. Below the emblem, a representation of the historic Stari Most (Mostar Bridge) spans the field, with the mint mark positioned below and to the right of the date. The circular legend reads REPUBLIKA BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA with the date 1993. |
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| Mintage | 1993 PM - - 5,000 |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina issued this coin in 1993 while the country was actively at war — the siege of Sarajevo was in its second year, the economy had collapsed, and the dinar was hyperinflating into irrelevance. The decision to strike a .999 gold numismatic piece during that period had nothing to do with domestic monetary needs and everything to do with generating hard currency revenue from foreign collectors.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex subject is striking precisely because it has no connection to Bosnian natural history. It belongs to a broader series of early-1990s emergency-economy collector coins issued by newly independent or war-affected states, often outsourced to foreign mints and aimed squarely at the Western hobby market.