Currency of Croatia 100 Kuna banknote 2012
Croatian National Bank - Narodna Banka Hrvatske
Obverse: a portrait of Ivan Mažuranić (1814-1890), a Croatian ban and poet, and a fragment of the Baška Inscription from the Convent of St. Lucy in Baška on the Island of Krk.
Reverse: the Church of St. Vid in Rijeka and its ground plan.
Date on the banknote: July 9, 2012.
Date of putting into circulation: July 1, 2013.
Dimensions: 138 mm x 69 mm.
Watermark: a portrait of Ivan Mažuranić, displayed on the left side of the banknote, in the central part of the blank area, visible when the banknote is viewed against the light.
Paper: toned, with embedded fluorescent fibres, a multitonal positioned watermark and security thread.
Main colour: reddish-brown.
Print: the base is printed in multicoloured offset with an iridescent effect; the main motif, latent image, marking for the visually impaired and microtext are printed in intaglio and the inscriptions are embossed; the intaglio and embossed prints are perceptible by touch.
Metallies foil: a hologram strip with curved edges, laid vertically along the right edge of the banknote, featuring an optically variable image which comes into view when the banknote is tilted, alternatively displaying the Church of St. Vid, the currency name "KUNA" and the denomination numeral "100", while the foil iridesces; embossed on the upper part of the foil is the denomination numeral "100", perceptible by touch.
Iridescent color: on the high-gloss rectangular patches positioned above and below the watermark, along the upper and lower edges of the banknote, featuring fragmented images of the Church of St. Vid in Rijeka, when the banknote is tilted under the light, the iridescent colour on the base changes from silver to pink.
See-through register: a square placed next to the coat of arms of the Republic of Croatia, bordered by the inscriptions "100 KUNA"; triangular elements of the see-through register on the obverse and reverse of the banknote match when the banknote is viewed against the light, forming letter "H".
Ultraviolet: some colours on the base fluoresce under ultraviolet light; the series and serial number designation, and hologram edges, fluoresce green.
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Ivan Mažuranić
Ivan Mažuranić (11 August 1814 – 4 August 1890) was a Croatian poet, linguist and politician—probably the most important figure in Croatia's cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić served as Ban of Croatia-Slavonia between 1873 and 1880.
His realistic assessment of strengths and weaknesses of Croatia's position between the hammer of Austrian bureaucracy and the anvil of Hungarian expansionist nationalism served his country invaluably in times of political turmoil. Mažuranić is best remembered for the "triple accomplishment"—contributions in economics, linguistics, and poetry.
Baška tablet
Baška tablet (Croatian: Bašćanska ploča) is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Croatian recension of the Church Slavonic language, dating from c. 1100.
The tablet was discovered by scholars in 1851 in the paving of the Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor near Baška on the island of Krk.
Since 1934 the original has been kept in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb.
Baška tablet is made of white limestone. It is 199 cm wide, 99.5 cm high, and 7.5–9 cm thick. It weighs approximately 800 kilograms.
The inscribed stone slab records King Zvonimir's donation of a piece of land to a Benedictine abbey in the time of abbot Držiha. The second half of the inscription tells how Abbot Dobrovit built the church along with nine monks. The inscription is written in the Glagolitic script, exhibiting features of Church Slavonic of Croatian recension, such as writing (j)u for (j)ǫ, e for ę, i for y, and using one jer only (ъ). It provides the only example of transition from Glagolitic of the rounded Bulgarian type to the angular Croatian alphabet.
Rijeka Cathedral
The St. Vitus Cathedral (Croatian: Katedrala Svetog Vida) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Rijeka, Croatia.
The Church of St. Vitus was in Middle Ages a small and one-sided, romanesque church dedicated to the patron saint and protector of Rijeka. It had a semi-circular apse behind the altar, and covered porch. With the arrival of the Jesuits in Rijeka, the Cathedral as we see it today was founded in 1638. First, it became the Jesuits' church. When the town of Rijeka became the center of the diocese, and then in 1969 the center of the archbishopric and metropolit, the representative Jesuit's Church of St. Vitus became the Cathedral of Rijeka. It’s a rotunda, which is unusual in this part of Europe, with elements of baroque and Gothic, including fine baroque statuary inside.