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500 Kuna
| Issuer | Narodna Banka Hrvatske (National Bank of Croatia) |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Designer(s) | Designers: Miroslav Šutej, Šimun Šutej |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter face intaglio portrait of Marko Marulić (1450–1524), Renaissance poet and Christian humanist, at right centre against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Croatian coat of arms appears in the upper centre field, with the large numeral 500 in colour-shifting ink at lower left. The bank title NARODNA BANKA HRVATSKE runs vertically along the left margin, with the denomination PET STOTINA KUNA also set vertically to its right. |
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| Signature(s) | Pero Jurković |
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Croatia's 1993 note series was printed under urgent conditions — the country had declared independence in 1991, the Homeland War was ongoing, and a functioning national currency was a political and logistical priority. G&D Leipzig supplied several denominations, with this being among the higher-value pieces in that initial kuna reintroduction. The kuna itself carried deliberate historical weight: it had last circulated under the wartime Ustaše government, a fact that provoked sharp criticism at the time of reintroduction from Serbian politicians and some international observers.
Miroslav Šutej was one of Croatia's most respected graphic artists, known internationally for his optical and kinetic work. His involvement gave the series a design pedigree unusual for emergency-era currency.