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50 Kuna pattern
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Hrvatske |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pale yellow note with an intaglio portrait of the Croatian Baroque poet Ivan Gundulić (1589–1638) occupying the right half of the face, rendered in dark blue-green with fine engraved line work. To the upper centre, a small vignette of the Croatian coat of arms is accompanied by a text block of verse, while a guilloche underprint panel in teal runs vertically at centre-left. The large numeral "50" in open-face figures appears at lower centre, with the denomination "PEDESET KUNA" printed vertically at left alongside the bank title; a small square colour-test block is visible at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on pale yellow paper and carries only a faint show-through impression of the obverse design in light olive-green, with no independently printed vignette or text; the note is effectively unprinted on this side, consistent with a trial or pattern piece intended to test the face printing only. |
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Croatia's first post-independence banknote series was designed and printed under considerable time pressure — the kuna was reintroduced on 30 May 1994, reviving a currency name last used under the wartime Ustasha regime, a politically loaded choice that generated real public debate. This 50 kuna piece is a pattern, produced before the final series was confirmed, and pattern survivors from this issue are rarely encountered separately from institutional holdings.
The reintroduction of the kuna name required a deliberate government decision to reclaim the denomination from its 1941–1945 associations.