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| Issuer | National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Thickness | 3.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | PM Pobjoy Mint, Surrey, United Kingdom (1965-2023) |
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Bosnia issued this coin in 1994 while the country was still at war — the siege of Sarajevo was in its second year, and the fledgling National Bank was operating under extraordinary conditions. Issuing a wildlife commemorative during active conflict was less a contradiction than a deliberate act of institutional signaling: the Bank needed to establish credibility and generate hard currency through collector sales abroad, not domestic circulation.
The gray wolf had been functionally extirpated from much of the former Yugoslavia by the mid-20th century before partial recovery in the Dinaric Alps.