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1 Ducat - Aleksandar I Pattern
| Issuer | Yugoslavia |
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| Year | 1931 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Alexander I facing left, rendered in high relief with fine medallic detail. The truncation of the neck is clean, with the engraver's signature КОВНИЦА А.Д. incuse below. The surrounding Cyrillic legend reads АЛЕКСАНДАР I КРАЉ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ, arranged along the upper and lower periphery within a beaded border. The portrait conveys a austere, modernist character consistent with the interwar medallic tradition. |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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Pattern ducats of interwar Yugoslavia are poorly documented, and the Schlumberger reference remains the primary authority on these issues. This piece was struck under Aleksandar I during the period of his personal dictatorship, established in January 1929 when he abolished the constitution and dissolved parliament. Whether this pattern was seriously considered for circulation or produced purely as a presentation piece is not settled — Yugoslav gold coinage of this period had an erratic relationship with actual monetary use.
The .986 fineness follows the traditional ducat standard unchanged since the Habsburg era.