Pictured left to right: Croatian 5, 10, 20, 50, 50 Lipa, 1, 2, 2, 5 Kuna
If Friday the 13th wasn't freaky enough, I'm already on my 6th post and yet again posting the coins that my fiancees father gave to me. Let me just clarify this for you if you're confused on how these were brought back to me. My fiancee is Thai, she went back to Thailand for vacation and to visit family and her parents, more specifically, her father, saved these coins from his recent visit to Europe, he went 3 times in 2011 and every time he went there, he kept me and my coin collecting obsession on his mind. How kind!
I hope I'm keeping my viewers busy with these posts, I really do! Although there are only a few of you at the moment, that's enough to keep me going, but put the word out for me, I want 1 Million views by the end of the year!
Now to the coins, what I have pictured here is are the best specimens that I could find in the coins that were given to me. Most of them are quite nice, mostly in AU (Almost Uncirculated) condition while the rest are F (Fine) to XF (Extra Fine). Croatian coins are quite beautiful, the obverse of the coins depict the flora and fauna native to Croatia. One interesting thing about these coins are the inscriptions on the obverse sides. They write the name of the animal or plant species in either Croatian or Latin. A good example of this are the two 50 Lipa coins in the picture. The 50 Lipa on the left is written in Latin while the one on the right is written in Croatian. The same can be said with the 2 Kuna coins, the left is in latin and the right is in Croatian!
Despite the fact that Latin is a dying language, Latin is very important in the scientific community. You will usually find the use of Latin on many coins and currency throughout the world. For example, the Latin language is all over U.S. currency and coins. I'm not exactly sure why countries do this, but I always find it interesting.
What I don't have pictured here is the 25 Kuna coin. I'm not sure if they use them in general circulation or if they are just collectors items, but the National Bank of Croatia has them listed on their site as general circulation coins, which leads me to believe that the 25 Kuna coins are hard to find. But I could be wrong.
Enjoy!
