Depicts the marten (kuna). The date on the below, country name above. Surrounded by the twelve stars of the European Union.

The Croatian National Bank has scrapped the first proposed design after allegations surfaced that its designer plagiarised the image. The current design still depicts a marten but the animal takes a different position.

The coins and currency of Croatia since the middle ages have been referred to as the “kuna,” so-named after the small furry animal whose pelt was once considered a traded commodity. The kuna was depicted on earlier coins and was also adopted as the name for the currency in 1994 after independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. The image of a kuna appeared on contemporary Croatian one, two, and five-kuna coins issued since 1994.

Design: Jagor Šunde, Fran Zekan and David Čemeljić

A geographical map of Western Europe spans the outer ring and inner core on the right side of the coin. The inscription 1 EURO is superimposed over the map of Europe, with the numeral “1” located in an open field representing the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

12 stars are located on the right side of the outer ring, with six stars atop the map of Europe and six stars below it; six vertical stripes cut across the inner core of the coin, visually connecting the upper and lower star segments.

Luc Luycx, a designer at the Royal Belgian Mint, designed the Euro’s common reverse; his initials, LL, are seen on the right side of the design, just under the “O” in “EURO.”