The date on this note is 8 October 1991, the day the Croatian Sabor severed all constitutional and legal ties with Yugoslavia. The twenty-five-dinar note belongs to the first series of independent Croatia’s own money, the Croatian dinar. It was issued not by a central bank but by the Republic of Croatia itself: the front bears the signature of Finance Minister Jozo Martinović.

The front shows a portrait of Ruđer Bošković (1711–1787), a native of Dubrovnik, physicist, astronomer and mathematician, next to his geometric constructions. The back is turned vertically and shows Zagreb Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary together with the coat of arms of the republic. All inscriptions are in Croatian, in the Latin script.

The twenty-five-dinar note has a feature of its own: held to the light, the paper shows a figure «5» among wavy lines, and an inverted watermark also occurs. The dinar was meant as a currency for a transitional period: on 30 May 1994 it was replaced by the kuna, and on that same day the dinar notes ceased to be legal tender.

This note opens the monetary history of independent Croatia: the run of dinars dated 8 October 1991, from 1 to 1,000 dinars, starts any Croatian collection, which the kuna notes of 1993 then continue. UNC condition means the note has never circulated: no folds, no wear, no soiling, even corners — just as it left the press.

You can find companions for this banknote, by series or by year of issue, in the VPcoins catalogue.