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Banknotes of Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Convertible Maraka
Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Centralna banka Bosne i Hercegovine
Obverse: Portrait of the Herzegovinian Croat poet Antun Branko Šimić (1898-1925). Signature: Peter Nicholl (New Zealand economist) - Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (from 1997 to 2004).
Reverse: "Radimlja Tombstone" - Tomb fragment at Radimlja necropolis.
Watermark: Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina monogram "CBBH" in Latin and Cyrillic letters repeated vertically.
Predominant colour: Dark brown and light grey.
Dimensions: 138 mm × 68 mm.
Printed by Francois-Charles Oberhtur, Fiduicare Paris.
Bosnia and Herzegovina banknotes
Konvertibilna marka = 100 fening
Parity: 1 konvertibilna marka = 0,51129 EUR.
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Antun Branko Šimić
Antun Branko Šimić (18 November 1898 – 2 May 1925) was a Herzegovinian Croat expressionist poet.
He was born in Drinovci near Grude on 18 November 1898, in the family of Vida and Martin Šimić. He attended primary school in his native village, and then the first three forms of the Franciscan classical grammar school in Široki Brijeg. He decided to change school in the fourth form and went to Mostar and afterwards to Vinkovci. His unruly spirit made him change his surroundings again and so he continued his education in Zagreb, in the upper town grammar school.
In 1917, he started the journal for art and culture, Vijavica (Whirlwind), which forced him to leave school. This is when he lost his parents' support and it also meant a hard life overpowered by many illnesses. After four issues of Vijavica, taking the example of German journal Der Sturm, he also launched another journal, Juriš (Attack), which likewise had a short life of three issues only. He went on writing poems, literary and art critiques and also translating. He often had to live in straitened circumstances which caused many illnesses, so he went back to Drinovci and made up with his father.
Between 1918 and 1919, he immersed himself into writing poems whilst staying in a hamlet of Drinovci, Dubrava Majići, in a cottage where his mother grew up. Some of his first expressionist works were created here, most notably Ja pjevam (I Sing), Povratak (The Return) and Ljubav (Love).
When he returned to Zagreb he launched his third journal, Književnik (Writer). At the Faculty of Philosophy he met Tatjana Marinić to whom he dedicated his one and only collection, Preobraženja (Metamorphoses) in 1920. He contracted tuberculosis and died on 2 May 1925 in a hospital in Zagreb.
Works
Šimić did not write a large literary opus during his lifetime. However, some of his poems could be called anthological, like Pjesnici (Poets), Veče i ja (The Evening and I), Opomena (Warning), Ručak siromaha (The Poor Man's Dinner), Žene pred uredima (Women in Front of Offices), Smrt i ja (Death and I), Pjesma jednom brijegu (Poem to a Mountain), Smrt (Death), and some others. After writing under the influence of Matoš, Kranjčević, Vidrić and Domjanić, he bore down on the traditionalists and started favouring an unrestrained expression and expressionist spirit. In his collection Preobraženja (Metamorphoses), using a free verse, he wrote tersely, rhythmically, gnomically and logically.
He would also sometimes recourse to the decasyllabic line and the folk lament. His topics are the man, pain, poverty, stars, Herzegovina, the poor, life and death ("death is something quite human"). When he turns to the man he warns him: Be careful not to go, small as thou are, under the stars, man, (from the poem Warning). When he writes about the mystery and perseverance, he says: We watch each other silently. Mountain and man. I'll never know where our different meanings meet- (Poem to a mountain).
The image of A.B. Šimić can be seen on 20 km banknote of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Radimlja necropolis
Radimlja is a stećak necropolis located near Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in Vidovo polje, 3 km west of Stolac, on the Čapljina-Stolac road. The Radimlja necropolis is one of the most valuable monuments of the mediaeval period in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The majority of its stećak tombstones date from the 15th and 16th centuries, as evidenced by the epitaph on one of the tombstones - this was the period when the Hrabren Miloradović family lived in Ošanići. Records from 1967 show that the necropolis then had a total of 133 tombstones.
When the Čapljina-Stolac road was built during the Austro-Hungarian period, it ran through the necropolis, leaving 11 tombstones to the north and all the rest to the south of the road. Some twenty tombstones were probably destroyed in the process. A total of 63 are decorated, in bas relief, engraving or a combination of the two. The finest decorated examples are gabled tombstones and tall chest-shaped tombstones. There are epitaphs on five tombstones referring to the Hrabren Miloradović family.