Please post your coins from Croatia! Mine... Croatia/Independent State 1941-45 Ante Pavelič 1941-45 AV 500 Kuna Zagreb Mint
I have a 25 kuna coin from 1997 commemorating Croatia joining the United Nations in 1992, I received it as a gift when I was a kid, but now as an adult I don't collect Croatian coins, because I almost exclusively collect gold coins that are over 100 years old (the only planned exception to this will be the 5th century BCE Athenian silver tetradrachm, if I manage to find one in really top condition that is) and to my knowledge there is no specifically Croatian coin in existence that fits that bill.
While I am no fan of the person pictured on that coin, I am curious in regard to how much that coin cost you to acquire in Canada? I just looked the local prices up and sellers here in Croatia are asking somewhere in the 7000 - 10000 USD range for it!
I also have this 5 kuna coin from 1995 commemorating the 500th anniversary of the printing of the Senj Glagolitic missal:
While I don't own one, I have looked up which specifically Croatian coin is the oldest one in existence, and supposedly it is this Slavonian banovac (Slavonia is a region in eastern Croatia, while ban is the Croatian term for viceroy, so banovac should mean "the viceroy's money") from the 13th century:
No, it is a European pine marten, which is called kuna in Croatia! The pelts of the kunas were used as currency before local coinage came along, and when it did, they were put on the coins!
I have a fully mounted fisher/ same family but bigger. We also have martens here/ and mink. More North there are wolverines. The ermines (Winter phase) are beautifull/ highly prized for fur coats.
A coin you might be interested in is up for auction: https://nomisma.bidinside.com/en/lot/623861/croazia-5-kuna-1934-pattern-km-pn7-ag-g-/
There is actually a NGC graded Slavonian banovac for sale on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2753433769...FA4JAV&hash=item401bbe8260:g:c~kAAOSwyLZioWuy
Hungarian auction site Numismatika Pannonia Terra has nice selections of these/ other coins in high grades.
Since you like Croatian World War II era gold coinage, here is one that you probably don't have: https://www.njuskalo.hr/numizmatika-kovanice/25-banica-1941-zlatnik-oglas-40438081 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces165069.html
No/ I do not have that one! I brought my AV 100 Kuna 1941 coin to my coin club meeting. They all liked the coin. I guess Tito is hated in Croatia.
He is by us sane people, but unfortunately in Croatia there are also many fifth columnists and uneducated/brainwashed people who don't know anything about history (many of the members of both groups (especially the first one) aren't ethnic Croats, but they live here and have our citizenship), so don't be surprised if you meet his fans here, although thankfully unlike in North America, where the younger somebody is, the more likely they are to have communist sympathies, in Croatia the vast majority of the fans of the communist mass murderer Tito and communism are of retirement age or (relatively) near it.
