Estonia (1928-1940)

This serie of banknotes belongs to the period of the country in which the anti-communist and anti-parliamentary Movement Vaps emerged and which promoted a referendum to change the parliamentary regime for a presidential regime. But on March 12, 1934 the Head of State, Konstantin Päts, gave a coup d'etat and ruled by decree (closing the parliament and prohibiting political parties, such as the Vaps Movement), locking up opponents, released in the amnesty of 1938 This interwar period had a great cultural breakthrough from Estonia (and from all minority cultural groups, whose autonomy was not affected). Estonia tried to maintain a neutral policy but, after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, it fell into the Soviet zone and was occupied in June 1940. There are banknotes of  5 kroons, 10 kroons, 20 kroons, 50 kroons and 100 kroons.

10 kroons (kümme krooni)

This banknotes worth 10 kroons was first circulated in May the 3rd 1927. On the main side left it can be seen an Estonian girl with the traditional dress in the countryside, carrying a sickle and a sheaf of wheat. In the right appears the written value of the banknote, a 10 and the name of the National Bank in Estonian (Eesti Pank). The rest of the banknote is fulled with floristic and decorative elements.
On the other side of the banknote appears a big 10, the written value of the banknote twice and in the left, another 10. Moreover it has the Estonian coat of arms, compounded with three blue lions, inherited from the king Valdemar II of Denmark (who owned the north of Estonia). This banknote has 10's and waves as digital watermark. The size of this banknote is 12.9 cm x 8.1 cm.