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750 Dinara Eohippus
| Issuer | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Second Dinar (1994-1998) |
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| Reverse description | Two Eohippus specimens — the small dawn horse of the Eocene epoch — are depicted in dynamic galloping posture across a naturalistic ground line, rendered in high-relief proof strike. The inscription EOHIPPUS appears to the right of the central design in the field. The curved legend PRESERVE PLANET EARTH arcs along the left and upper periphery in bold Latin capitals. The denomination D750 is inscribed along the lower exergue in large characters. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina issued this coin in 1994 while the country was actively under siege — Sarajevo alone had been encircled since April 1992 in what became the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare. Coins like this were not produced for domestic circulation; they were hard-currency collector issues, effectively foreign-exchange instruments aimed at numismatic markets abroad while the dinar itself collapsed under hyperinflation exceeding several thousand percent annually.
The choice of Eohippus — the Eocene ancestor of the modern horse — for a Bosnian commemorative is curiously disconnected from any regional paleontological significance, suggesting the series was driven by international collector demand rather than national narrative.