At a café in western Mostar, the waitress gave me a bill that seemed too large for a cup of coffee until I realised that she had written the bill in kuna, the Croatian currency, even though Bosnia-Herzegovina’s convertible mark is more stable, being pegged to the defunct German mark. ‘I can’t count in the other thing,’ she told me somewhat contemptuously, not dignifying Bosnian currency by giving it a name. (Some Serbs would still quote prices in dinar, the Yugoslav currency.)
