1 Dinar - Aleksandar I Pattern

This piece belongs to a series of pattern coins struck in 1925 as Yugoslavia worked to standardize its postwar coinage under King Aleksandar I, following the monetary chaos inherited from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Paris and Poissy mints were involved in producing regular-issue dinars of this period, and patterns in differing compositions were a routine part of the approval process before production contracts were finalized.

The copper-nickel composition was ultimately not adopted for the 1 dinar denomination at this time.